Advances in the Treatment of Varicose Veins: Ambulatory Phlebectomy, Foam Sclerotherapy, Endovascular Laser, and Radiofrequency Closure

Advances in Dermatology

Volumn 22, Issue , 2006, Pages 139-156

  Sadick, Neil S ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHETER ABLATION; HUMAN; LASER SURGERY; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; SCLEROTHERAPY; VARICOSIS; VASCULAR SURGERY;

CATHETER ABLATION; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; SCLEROTHERAPY; VARICOSE VEINS; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 33845619608     PISSN: 08820880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yadr.2006.09.001     Document Type: Review

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