A prospective study of incidence of saphenous nerve injury after total great saphenous vein stripping

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1333-1339

  Flu, Hans C ^a,b   Breslau, Paul J ^b   Hamming, Jaap F ^a   Lardenoye, Jan Willem ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b HagaHospital ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSESTHESIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GREAT SAPHENOUS VEIN STRIPPING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LIMB PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE INJURY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PARESTHESIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAPHENOUS NERVE INJURY; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VARICOSIS; VEIN SURGERY;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAPHENOUS VEIN; TRAUMA, NERVOUS SYSTEM; VARICOSE VEINS; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 53149137068     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2008.34285.x     Document Type: Article

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