Current management of varicose veins

Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 414-426

  Carr, Sandra C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Endoluminal ablation sclerotherapy; Perforating veins; Saphenofemoral junction; Venulectases

Indexed keywords

GLYCEROL; MORRHUATE SODIUM; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; POLIDOCANOL; SCLEROSING AGENT; TETRADECYL SULFATE SODIUM; TRIAMCINOLONE;

ANKLE EDEMA; B SCAN; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPRESSION THERAPY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LASER SURGERY; PHLEBECTOMY; PHLEBITIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRURITUS; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SCLEROTHERAPY; SKIN NECROSIS; SPIDER VEIN; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TELANGIECTASIA; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; VARICOSIS; VEIN DISEASE; VENOUS STASIS;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGATION; MALE; PAIN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SCLEROTHERAPY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; VARICOSE VEINS; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; VEINS;

EID: 33748281134     PISSN: 00099201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003081-200606000-00022     Document Type: Review

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