Fluoroscopy-guided endovenous foam sclerotherapy using a microcatheter in varicose tributaries followed by endovenous laser treatment of incompetent saphenous veins: Technical feasibility and early results

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 804-812

  Park, Sang Woo ^a   Yun, Ik Jin ^a   Hwang, Jae Joon ^a   Lee, Song Am ^a   Kim, Jun Seok ^a   Chang, Seong Hwan ^a   Chee, Hyun Keun ^a   Kim, Ho Chul ^b   Sun, Kyung ^b,c   Park, Sang Joon ^d  

^a Konkuk University Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c Korea University   (South Korea)

^d Korea University Ansan Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETERIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; LIMB PAIN; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARESTHESIA; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SCLEROSIS; SCLEROTHERAPY; SKIN TINGLING; SUPERFICIAL THROMBOPHLEBITIS; VARICOSIS; VASOSPASM; VENOUS REFLUX; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOSCOPY; CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY, LOW-LEVEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINIATURIZATION; PHLEBOGRAPHY; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SCLEROSING SOLUTIONS; SCLEROTHERAPY; TISSUE ADHESIVES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOSE VEINS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65349102934     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2009.01136.x     Document Type: Article

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