Early results and feasibility of incompetent perforator vein ablation by endovenous laser treatment

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 162-168

  Proebstle, Thomas M ^a   Herdemann, Sylvia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANNULA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIODE LASER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LASER; LASER SURGERY; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEODYMIUM LASER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ULTRASOUND; VEIN INSUFFICIENCY; VEIN PERFORATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ENDOSCOPY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 33846822118     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2006.33034.x     Document Type: Article

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