Mechanical inhibition of angiogenesis at the saphenofemoral junction in the surgical treatment of varicose veins: Early results of a blinded randomized controlled trial

Circulation

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 66-74

  Van Rij, André M ^a   Jo es, Gregory T ^a   Hill, B Geraldine ^a   Amer, Mohammad ^a   Thomson, Ian A ^a   Pettigrew, Ross A ^a   Packer, Stephen G K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Follow up studies; Surgery; Varicose veins; Veins

Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

ADULT; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTERY LIGATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SAPHENOUS VEIN; VARICOSIS; VASCULAR SURGERY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EQUIPMENT; FOLLOW UP; LEG; LIGATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION; VEIN INSUFFICIENCY;

DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LEG; LIGATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RECURRENCE; SAPHENOUS VEIN; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOSE VEINS; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 50949129251     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.107.726869     Document Type: Article

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