The reproducibility of the ratio of volume flow in the common femoral vein and artery for quantification of the severity of venous insufficiency

Vasa - Journal of Vascular Diseases

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 199-203

  Kahle, Birgit ^a,b   Hennies, F ^a   Bolz, S ^a   Pritsch, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Duplex sonography; Hemodynamics; Venous insufficiency; Volume flow

Indexed keywords

ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; BLOOD VOLUME; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMORAL ARTERY; FEMORAL VEIN; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEASUREMENT; POSTTHROMBOSIS SYNDROME; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; VARICOSIS; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; VEIN INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 0344009999     PISSN: 03011526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024/0301-1526.32.4.199     Document Type: Article

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