Medical and Surgical Therapy for Advanced Chronic Venous Insufficiency

Surgical Clinics of North America

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1195-1214

  Word, Ronnie ^a  

^a MARSHFIELD CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Venous ablation; Venous insufficiency; Venous reconstruction; Venous ulceration

Indexed keywords

DAFLON; ILOPROST; PENTOXIFYLLINE; PLACEBO; PROSTAGLANDIN E1;

CHRONIC VEIN INSUFFICIENCY; COMPRESSION THERAPY; HUMAN; INTERMITTENT PNEUMATIC COMPRESSION DEVICE; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LASER SURGERY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REVIEW; ULCER; ULCER HEALING; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; VEIN OCCLUSION; VEIN SURGERY; VENOUS REFLUX; WOUND CARE;

BANDAGES; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG ULCER; MALE; PENTOXIFYLLINE; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOSE ULCER; VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 78149435653     PISSN: 00396109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.suc.2010.08.008     Document Type: Review

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