Correlation of perforating vein incompetence with extent of great saphenous insufficiency: Cross sectional study

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 245-251

  Krnić, Anton ^a   Vučić, Nikša ^a   Sučić, Zvonimir ^a  

^a Holy Ghost General Hospital   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VOLUME; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIPODERMATOSCLEROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PREVALENCE; SAPHENOUS VEIN; TELANGIECTASIA; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; VEIN DIAMETER; VEIN DISEASE; VEIN INSUFFICIENCY;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SAPHENOUS VEIN; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 18844445065     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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