Characterization of a porcine model of chronic superficial varicose veins

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1554-1561

  Jones, Gregory T ^a   Grant, Mark W ^a   Thomson, Ian A ^a   Hill, B Geraldine ^a   van Rij, André M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; VALSALVA MANEUVER; VARICOSIS; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ANIMALS; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORROSION CASTING; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMORAL ARTERY; FEMORAL VEIN; LOWER EXTREMITY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SWINE; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; VARICOSE VEINS; VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY; VENOUS PRESSURE;

EID: 66149139286     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2009.01.070     Document Type: Article

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