A multicenter randomized trial of cryo stripping versus conventional stripping of the great saphenous vein

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 288-295

  Biasi, Lukla ^a   Ali, Tahir ^a   Ratnam, Lakshmi Arumagum ^a   Morgan, Rob ^a   Loftus, Ian ^a   Thompson, Matt ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOSURGERY; DESCENDING AORTA SURGERY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOLEAK; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIMB ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOSIS; VEIN STRIPPING; AORTOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL TRANSPLANTATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA BASE; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EVALUATION STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; LENGTH OF STAY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RADIOGRAPHY; REOPERATION; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DATABASES AS TOPIC; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; REOPERATION; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 59649093480     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2008.09.013     Document Type: Article

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