Minimally invasive technique for ligation and stripping of the small saphenous vein guided by intra-operative duplex ultrasound

Surgeon

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 372-373

  Whiteley, M S ^a   Lewis, G ^b   Holdstock, J M ^a   Smith, C ^b   Harrison, C S ^a   McGuinness, C L ^a   Price, B A ^a  

^a The Whiteley Clinic   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL SURREY COUNTY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Duplex ultrasound; Inversion pin stripping; Short saphenous vein; Small saphenous vein

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCISION; LIMB BLOOD VESSEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NEUROPATHY; PATIENT SAFETY; POPLITEAL VEIN; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RANDOM SAMPLE; RECURRENT DISEASE; RELIABILITY; REVASCULARIZATION; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SURAL NERVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND; VEIN LIGATION; VEIN STRIPPING; VENOUS REFLUX; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 33751558795     PISSN: 1479666X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1479-666X(06)80113-7     Document Type: Article

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