Great saphenous vein stripping with preservation of sapheno-femoral confluence: Hemodynamic and clinical results

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1300-1304

  Pittaluga, Paul ^a   Chastanet, Sylvain ^a   Guex, Jean Jérôme ^b  

^a Riviera Veine Institut   (France)

^b Cabinet de Médecine Vasculaire   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAPHENOUS VEIN; VARICOSIS; VEIN DIAMETER; VEIN INSUFFICIENCY; VEIN SURGERY; VEIN THROMBOSIS; VENOUS REFLUX; VENOUS STRIPPING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; LIGATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAPHENOUS VEIN; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VARICOSE VEINS;

EID: 44349152322     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2008.01.042     Document Type: Article

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