Clinical significance of ostial great saphenous vein reflux

European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 320-324

  Barros, Márcio Vinícius Lins ^a,d   Labropoulos, N ^b   Ribeiro, A L P ^c   Okawa, R Y ^a,c   Machado, F S ^a  

^a Ecoar Noninvasive Diagn Medicine   (Brazil)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^d NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Air plethysmography; Duplex scanning; Great saphenous vein

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAPHENOUS VEIN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VEIN DIAMETER; VEIN INSUFFICIENCY; VENOUS REFLUX;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; SAPHENOUS VEIN; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 33144484015     PISSN: 10785884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejvs.2005.08.017     Document Type: Article

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