Incompetent great saphenous veins treated with endovenous 1,320-nm laser: Results for 71 legs and morphologic evolvement study

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1453-1457

  Yang, Chih Hsun ^a,b   Chou, Hong Shiue ^a   Lo, Yung Feng ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LASER SURGERY; LEG VARICOSIS; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; VEIN INSUFFICIENCY;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SAPHENOUS VEIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VARICOSE VEINS;

EID: 33845597567     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2006.32355.x     Document Type: Article

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