Transilluminated Powered Phlebectomy Surgery for Varicose Veins: A Review of 339 Consecutive Patients

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 303-309

  Franz, Randall W ^a   Knapp, Eric D ^b  

^a GRANT MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Doctors Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELLULITIS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC SCAR; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PHLEBECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; TRANSILLUMINATED POWERED PHLEBECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ENDOSCOPES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGHTING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOSE VEINS; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349174562     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.avsg.2008.07.005     Document Type: Article

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