Minimally invasive vein surgery: Latest options for vein disease

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 270-278

  Elias, Steven ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Endogenous treatment; Exogenous treatment; Minimally invasive vein surgery; Venous disease

Indexed keywords

ABLATION THERAPY; ARTICLE; CELLULITIS; DEEP VALVULAR INSUFFICIENCY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INCOMPETENT PERFORATOR VEIN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LEG ULCER; LEG VARICOSIS; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PHLEBECTOMY; PHLEBITIS; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SAPHENOUS VEIN INCOMPETENCE; SUPERFICIAL THROMBOPHLEBITIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TECHNOLOGY; VEIN DISEASE; VEIN INSUFFICIENCY; VEIN LIGATION; VEIN STRIPPING; VEIN SURGERY; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; VARICOSE VEINS; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 77952764889     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: 19317581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/msj.20186     Document Type: Article

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