Does thigh compression improve venous hemodynamics in chronic venous insufficiency?

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 948-952

  Partsch, Hugo ^a   Menzinger, Gabriele ^a   Borst Krafek, Barbara ^a   Groiss, Eveline ^a  

^a WILHELMINEN HOSPITAL   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BANDAGE; CHRONIC VEIN INSUFFICIENCY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LEG COMPRESSION; LEG ULCER; MALE; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; POPLITEAL VEIN; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAPHENOUS VEIN; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; VEIN DIAMETER; VENOUS REFLUX;

EID: 0036845413     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mva.2002.127343     Document Type: Article

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