Five-year results of a randomized clinical trial comparing endovenous laser ablation with cryostripping for great saphenous varicose veins

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 98, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1107-1111

  Disselhoff, B C V M ^a   Der Kinderen, D J ^b   Kelder, J C ^c   Moll, F L ^d  

^a Bergman Clinics   (Netherlands)

^b Department of Dermatology ^*  (Netherlands)

^c ST ANTONIUS HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOSURGERY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; METHODOLOGY; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SAPHENOUS VEIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOSIS; VEIN INSUFFICIENCY;

CRYOSURGERY; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LASER THERAPY; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; RECURRENCE; SAPHENOUS VEIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOSE VEINS; VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 79959954349     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: 13652168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.7542     Document Type: Article

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