Clinical outcomes and changes in venous hemodynamics after subfascial endoscopic perforating vein surgery

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1314-1318

  Ting, A C W ^a   Cheng, S W K ^a   Ho, P ^a   Wu, L L H ^a   Cheung, G C Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Air plethysmography (APG) ; Chronic venous insufficiency; Subfascial endoscopic perforating vein surgery; Venous ulcers of the leg

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC VEIN INSUFFICIENCY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LEG ULCER; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBFASCIAL ENDOSCOPIC PERFORATING VEIN SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCER HEALING; VASCULAR SURGERY; VEIN INSUFFICIENCY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; LIGATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; RECURRENCE; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOSE ULCER; VARICOSE VEINS; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 0042860041     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-002-8764-3     Document Type: Article

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