Air plethysmographic assessment of external valvuloplasty in patients with valvular incompetence of the saphenous and deep veins

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 922-927

  Sakuda, Hitoshi ^a   Nakaema, Moriyasu ^a   Matsubara, Shinobu ^a   Higa, Noboru ^a   Kamada, Yoshihiko ^a   Kuniyoshi, Yukio ^a   Koja, Kageharu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAPHENOUS VEIN; VALVULOPLASTY; VARICOSIS; VEIN LIGATION; VEIN STRIPPING; VEIN SURGERY; VEIN VALVE; VENOUS REFLUX;

EID: 0036847147     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mva.2002.128639     Document Type: Article

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