Residual varicose veins below the knee after varicose vein surgery are not related to incompetent perforating veins

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1051-1054

  van Neer, Pierre ^a   Kessels, Alphons ^b   de Haan, Ed ^a   Estourgie, Rene ^a   Veraart, Joep ^c   Lijnen, Raf ^a   Neumann, Martino ^d  

^a LAURENTIUS HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b Kemta and Horten Zentrum Universitätsspital Zürich   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AVULSION INJURY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGING; INGUINAL REGION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAPHENOUS VEIN; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VARICOSIS; VEIN PERFORATION; VEIN SURGERY;

FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KNEE; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; SAPHENOUS VEIN; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; VARICOSE VEINS; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 33846208373     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2006.06.047     Document Type: Article

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