Venous insufficiency in patients with toenail onychomycosis

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1085-1089

  Kulac, Mustafa ^a   Acar, Murat ^a   Karaca, Semsettin ^a   Cetinkaya, Zafer ^a   Albayrak, Ramazan ^a   Haktanir, Alpay ^a   Demirel, Reha ^a  

^a AFYON KOCATEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Doppler ultrasonography; Onychomycosis; Venous insufficiency

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASES; DOPPLER EFFECT; PATIENT TREATMENT; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

DOPPLER EXAMINATIONS; FUNGUL INFECTION; ONYCHOMYCOSIS; VASCULAR ABNORMALITIES;

FUNGUS ATTACK;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMORAL VEIN; HUMAN; LEG VEIN; POPLITEAL VEIN; SAPHENOUS VEIN; TOENAIL ONYCHOMYCOSIS; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; VALSALVA MANEUVER; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; VEIN INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 23044478050     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2005.24.8.1085     Document Type: Article

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