Endovenous laser ablation for saphenous vein insufficiency: Immediate and short-term results of our first 60 procedures

Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 156-163

  Yilmaz, Saim ^a   Çeken, Kaǧan ^a   Alparslan, Ahmet ^a   Sindel, Timur ^a   Lüleci, Ersin ^a  

^a AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Catheter ablation; Endovenous laser ablation; Laser coagulation; Varicose veins

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECCHYMOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LASER SURGERY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; RECURRENT DISEASE; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SCLEROTHERAPY; SKIN BRUISING; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; VARICOSIS; VEIN INSUFFICIENCY; VEIN PUNCTURE; VEIN WALL; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER COAGULATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TURKEY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 34548438604     PISSN: 13053825     EISSN: 13053612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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