Endovenous laser ablation-induced complications: Review of the literature and new cases

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1206-1214

  Van Den Bos, Renate R ^a   Neumann, Martino ^a   De Roos, Kees Peter ^b   Nijsten, Tamar ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b BERNHOVEN HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BURN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DEVICE; ECCHYMOSIS; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; ENDOVENOUS LASER ABLATION; FOREIGN BODY; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; LASER SURGERY; LUNG EMBOLISM; NERVE INJURY; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN INDURATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THROMBOPHLEBITIS;

ECCHYMOSIS; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SAPHENOUS VEIN; VARICOSE VEINS;

EID: 61349102649     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2009.01215.x     Document Type: Article

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