Combined endovenous ablation and transilluminated powered phlebectomy: Is less invasive better?

Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 41-47

  Passman, Marc A ^a,b   Dattilo, Jeffery B ^a   Guzman, Raul J ^a   Naslund, Thomas C ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Endovenous ablation; Saphenous vein insufficiency; Saphenous vein stripping; Transilluminated phlebectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PHLEBECTOMY; PHLEBITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THERMAL INJURY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOSIS; VEIN INSUFFICIENCY; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ADULT; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TENNESSEE; TIME FACTORS; TRANSILLUMINATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOSE VEINS; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 33846680013     PISSN: 15385744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1538574406296207     Document Type: Article

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