Chronic Venous Disease Treated by Ultrasound Guided Foam Sclerotherapy

European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 577-583

  Smith, P Coleridge ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinical outcome; Duplex ultrasonography; Foam sclerotherapy; Varicose veins

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; FIBROVEIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; POLIDOCANOL; TETRADECYL SULFATE SODIUM; WARFARIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; CHRONIC VEIN INSUFFICIENCY; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DRUG FORMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LEG VARICOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PIGMENT DISORDER; POPLITEAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SCLEROTHERAPY; SKIN NODULE; STAGING; STROKE; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; ULTRASOUND GUIDED FOAM SCLEROTHERAPY; VASCULAR PATENCY; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; RECURRENCE; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SCLEROSING SOLUTIONS; SCLEROTHERAPY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SODIUM TETRADECYL SULFATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; VARICOSE VEINS; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 33749418397     PISSN: 10785884     EISSN: 15322165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejvs.2006.04.033     Document Type: Article

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