Guideline for medical compression stockings;Medizinischer kompressionsstrumpf (MKS)

Phlebologie

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 315-320

  Wienert, V ^a   Gerlach, H ^f   Gallenkemper, G ^g   Kahle, B ^b   Marshall, M ^e   Rabe, E ^c   Stenger, D ^e   Stucker M ^d   Waldermann, F ^h   Zabel, M ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^d ST JOSEF HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^e Dermatologische Universitätskliniken   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^g Dermatologische Universitätskliniken   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMPRESSION THERAPY; HUMAN; LEG COMPRESSION; PHLEBOLOGY; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; REVIEW; SCLEROTHERAPY; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; VARICOSIS; VEIN DISEASE; VEIN SURGERY;

EID: 33847380594     PISSN: 0939978X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1639017     Document Type: Review

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