Use of Compression Stockings in Chronic Venous Disease: Patient Compliance and Efficacy

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 790-795

  Raju, Seshadri ^a   Hollis, Kathryn ^a   Neglen, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CIRCULATION; CLOTHING; COMPRESSIVE STOCKING; CONTACT DERMATITIS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DERMATITIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; LEG ULCER; LEG VARICOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PAIN; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; PRURITUS; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SWELLING; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TREATMENT FAILURE; VEIN DISEASE; VENOUS STASIS; WORK;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STOCKINGS, COMPRESSION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOSE VEINS;

EID: 35548991969     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.avsg.2007.07.014     Document Type: Article

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