How often is deep venous reflux eliminated after saphenous vein ablation?

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 517-521

  Puggioni, Alessandra ^a,b   Lurie, Fedor ^a,b,c   Kistner, Robert L ^a,b,c   Eklof, Bo ^a,b,c  

^a Straub Foundation Honolulu ^*

^b Straub Foundation   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LEG DISEASE; MALE; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAPHENOUS VEIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN SURGERY; VENOUS REFLUX; BLOOD FLOW; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HOSPITALIZATION; LEG; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; VASCULAR SURGERY; VASCULARIZATION; VEIN INSUFFICIENCY;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 0141501085     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0741-5214(03)00413-0     Document Type: Article

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