Endovenous laser treatment for varicose veins in patients with active ulcers: Measurement of intravenous and perivenous temperatures during the procedure

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1234-1242

  Viarengo, Luiz Marcelo Aiello ^a   Potério Filho, João ^a,b   Potério, Gloria Maria Braga ^a   Menezes, Fábio Hüsemann ^a   Meirelles, Guilherme Vieira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b Parque Taquaral   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPRESSION THERAPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIODE LASER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LEG ULCER; LEG VARICOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAPHENOUS VEIN; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ULCER HEALING; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DISTAL PARESTHESIA; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; NOTE; SAPHENOUS NERVE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

EID: 34848850786     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2007.33259.x     Document Type: Article

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