Extracorporeal shock waves as curative therapy for varicose veins?

Clinical Interventions in Aging

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 175-182

  Angehrn, Fiorenzo ^a   Kuhn, Christoph ^a   Sonnabend, Ortrud ^b   Voss, Axel ^c  

^a Klinik Piano   (Switzerland)

^b Pathodiagnostics   (Switzerland)

^c SwiTech Medical AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Curative therapy; Extra cellular matrix (ECM); Extracorporeal shock wave ESW); Histopathologic changes of varicose veins; Progenitor cells

Indexed keywords

VASOACTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; COMPRESSION GARMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; EXTRACORPOREAL GENERATED SHOCK WAVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PHOTOELECTRIC PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THERMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; ULTRASOUND THERAPY; VARICOSIS; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; VENOUS CIRCULATION;

EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HIGH-ENERGY SHOCK WAVES; HUMANS; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; VARICOSE VEINS; VEINS;

EID: 42449142313     PISSN: 11769092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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