Outcome of Ultrasound-guided Sclerotherapy for Varicose Veins: Medium-term Results Assessed by Ultrasound Surveillance

European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 116-121

  Myers, K A ^a   Jolley, D ^b   Clough, A ^a   Kirwan, J ^a  

^a EPWORTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b Health Services Research   (Australia)

Author keywords

Saphenous; Sclerotherapy; Ultrasound; Varicose; Veins

Indexed keywords

POLIDOCANOL; TETRADECYL SULFATE SODIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DILUTION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOAM; HUMAN; LIFE TABLE; LIQUID; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETREATMENT; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SCLEROTHERAPY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VARICOSIS; VEIN DIAMETER; VENOUS REFLUX;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LIFE TABLES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SCLEROTHERAPY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; VARICOSE VEINS; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 33845339277     PISSN: 10785884     EISSN: 15322165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejvs.2006.09.005     Document Type: Article

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