Objective Assessment of Nerve Injury after Greater Saphenous Vein Stripping

European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 625-630

  Akagi, D ^a   Arita, H ^b   Komiyama, T ^a   Ishii, S ^a   Shigematsu, K ^a   Nagawa, H ^a   Miyata, T ^a  

^a Division of Vascular Surgery   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Current perception threshold; Nerve injury; Objective assessment; Postoperative complication; Stripping; Varicose vein surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE INJURY; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SAPHENOUS VEIN; VARICOSIS; VEIN STRIPPING;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL NERVES; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SENSATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 34047266206     PISSN: 10785884     EISSN: 15322165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejvs.2006.11.031     Document Type: Article

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