Chronic venous leg ulcers benefit from surgery: Long-term results from 173 legs

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 572-579

  Obermayer, Alfred ^a   Göstl, Katharina ^b   Walli, Gerald ^a   Benesch, Thomas ^c  

^a Surgical Department   (Austria)

^b Karl Landsteiner Society   (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC VENOUS LEG ULCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LEG ULCER; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIPHERAL VEIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STUDENT T TEST; VEIN SURGERY; WOUND HEALING; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CHRONIC DISEASE; FASCIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VARICOSE ULCER; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 33748134737     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2006.05.039     Document Type: Article

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