Varicose Veins

Disease-a-Month

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 212-222

  Bhayani, Ritesh ^a   Lippitz, Jonathan ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; FOAMING AGENT; GLYCEROL; MONOETHANOLAMINE OLEATE; MORRHUATE SODIUM; OSMOTIC AGENT; POLIDOCANOL; POLYIODIDE IODINE; SCLEROSING AGENT; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BLEEDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPRESSION BANDAGE; COMPRESSION GARMENT; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONVENTIONAL SCLEROTHERAPY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DEVICE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECZEMA; FOAM SCLEROTHERAPY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; LASER SURGERY; LIPODERMATOSCLEROSIS; LIQUID SCLEROTHERAPY; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; LUNG EMBOLISM; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; RETINAL MIGRAINE; REVIEW; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SCLEROTHERAPY; SCOTOMA; SKIN DISCOLORATION; SKIN INDURATION; SKIN NECROSIS; SKIN ULCER; TELANGIECTASIA; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; VARICOSIS;

COSMETIC TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY; SCLEROSING SOLUTIONS; SCLEROTHERAPY; VARICOSE VEINS;

EID: 61849084796     PISSN: 00115029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.disamonth.2008.12.003     Document Type: Review

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