Evaluation of Varicose Veins: What do the Clinical Signs and Symptoms Reveal about the Underlying Disease and Need for Intervention?

Seminars in Vascular Surgery

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 78-84

  Marston, William A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPRESSION THERAPY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; FAMILY HISTORY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; LEG PAIN; LEG ULCER; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MULTIPARA; MUSCLE CRAMP; OBESITY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STANDING; UNITED STATES; VARICOSIS; VEIN INSUFFICIENCY; VEIN STRIPPING; VEIN SURGERY; VENOUS REFLUX;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VARICOSE VEINS; VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 77955534990     PISSN: 08957967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semvascsurg.2010.01.003     Document Type: Article

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