An alternative treatment for varicose veins: Ligation plus foam sclerotherapy

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 470-479

  Islamoglu, Fatih ^a  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIGATION; LIMB DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; SAFETY; SCLEROTHERAPY; SURVIVAL RATE; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOSIS;

FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIGATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SCLEROTHERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VARICOSE VEINS; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 79954478495     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2011.01927.x     Document Type: Article

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