Changes on venous diameter and leg perimeter with different clinical treatments for moderate chronic venous disease: Evaluation using Duplex scanning and perimeter measurements

International Angiology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 222-231

  Lascasas Porto, C L ^a   Milhomens, A L M ^a   Pires, C E ^a   Salles Xavier, S ^b   Sicuro, F ^a   Bottino, D A ^a   Bouskela, E ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Leg; Ultrasonography, Doppler, Duplex; Veins

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; CIRKAN; HESPERIDIN; HESPERIDIN METHYLCHALCONE; RUSCUS ACULEATUS EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT; CHYMOTRYPSIN; DRUG COMBINATION; HESPERIDINE METHYLCHALCONE, RUSCUS ACULEATUS, VITAMIN C; PHYTOSTEROL; TRYPSIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPRESSION GARMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEG; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPLITEAL VEIN; SAPHENOUS VEIN; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VEIN DIAMETER; VEIN DISEASE; ANTHROPOMETRY; BRAZIL; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; COMPRESSION STOCKING; DEVICES; DISABILITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DRUG COMBINATION; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATHOLOGY; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR DISEASES; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ASCORBIC ACID; BRAZIL; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENTS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHYMOTRYPSIN; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; HESPERIDIN; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHYTOSTEROLS; POPLITEAL VEIN; SAPHENOUS VEIN; STOCKINGS, COMPRESSION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRYPSIN; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 69549133259     PISSN: 03929590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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