Veins along the course of the sciatic nerve

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 690-696

  Labropoulos, Nicos ^a   Tassiopoulos, Apostolos K ^a   Gasparis, Antonios P ^a   Phillips, Brett ^a   Pappas, Peter J ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; LEG PAIN; LIMB; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHLEBECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PRURITUS; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCIATIC NERVE; SCLEROTHERAPY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THIGH; THROMBOSIS; TIBIAL NERVE; ULTRASOUND; VARICOSIS; VEIN; VEIN DIAMETER; VEIN DISEASE; VEIN INSUFFICIENCY; VEIN LIGATION; VENOUS REFLUX;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PHLEBOGRAPHY; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCIATIC NERVE; SCLEROTHERAPY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDERS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VARICOSE VEINS; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 61349137553     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2008.09.061     Document Type: Article

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