Low-Molecular-Weight Heparin Versus Saphenofemoral Disconnection for the Treatment of Above-Knee Greater Saphenous Thrombophlebitis: A Prospective Study

Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 415-420

  Lozano, Francisco S ^a   Almazan, Arturo ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ENOXAPARIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; PARACETAMOL;

ANALGESIA; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG COST; EPISTAXIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; LUNG EMBOLISM; OUTPATIENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE THROMBOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RECURRENT DISEASE; SAPHENOFEMORAL ARCH LIGATION; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SCINTISCANNING; SURGICAL WOUND; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY CARE; ANTICOAGULANTS; ENOXAPARIN; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LIGATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAPHENOUS VEIN; THROMBOPHLEBITIS;

EID: 0344442735     PISSN: 15385744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153857440303700605     Document Type: Article

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