Symptoms of chronic venous disease and association with systemic inflammatory markers

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 950-954

  Howlader, Mohammad H ^a   Coleridge Smith, Philip D ^b,c  

^a ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c Wexham Park Hall ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; ENDOTHELIAL LEUKOCYTE ADHESION MOLECULE 1; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; L SELECTIN; PADGEM PROTEIN; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1; VASCULOTROPIN; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC VENOUS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; EDEMA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LEG VEIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE CRAMP; PAIN; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; VEIN DISEASE; VENOUS REFLUX; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 0242408312     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0741-5214(03)00600-1     Document Type: Article

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