Endoscopic anatomy of perforating veins in chronic venous insufficiency of the legs: "Solitary" incompetent perforating veins are often actually multiple vessels

International Journal of Angiology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 31-36

  Haruta, Naoki ^a,c   Shinhara, Ryo ^a   Sugino, Keizo ^a   Ojima, Yasutomo ^a   Yano, Masatugu ^a   Watanabe, Hiroshi ^a   Kawanishi, Hideki ^a   Mochiduki, Takaaki ^a   Asahara, Toshimasa ^b  

^a TSUCHIYA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Takanobashi Central Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVENTITIA; ARTERY PERFORATION; ARTICLE; CHRONIC VEIN INSUFFICIENCY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISSECTION; ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VIVO STUDY; LEG BLOOD VESSEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERIPHERAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; VEIN PERFORATION; VEIN SURGERY;

EID: 2942684869     PISSN: 10611711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1276441     Document Type: Article

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