Prospective randomized study of endovenous radiofrequency obliteration (Closure procedure) versus ligation and stripping in a selected patient population (EVOLVeS Study)

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 207-214

  Lurie, Fedor ^a,b   Creton, D ^c   Eklof, B ^a,b   Kabnick, L S ^d   Kistner, R L ^a,b   Pichot, O ^e,f   Schuller Petrovic, S ^d   Sessa, C ^e,f  

^a Straub Foundation   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c Clinique Ambroise Pare   (France)

^d MORRISTOWN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^f University Clinic of Dermatology

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ECCHYMOSIS; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; INFECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPHOCELE; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PARESTHESIA; PERIPHERAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAPHENOUS VEIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOSIS; VEIN LIGATION; VEIN STRIPPING; VEIN THROMBOSIS; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ADULT; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SAPHENOUS VEIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOSE VEINS; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 0042386345     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0741-5214(03)00228-3     Document Type: Article

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