Comparable effectiveness of endovenous laser ablation and high ligation with stripping of the great saphenous vein: Two-year results of a randomized clinical trial (RELACS study)

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 49-58

  Rass, Knuth ^a   Frings, Norbert ^b   Glowacki, Paul ^b   Hamsch, Corinna ^a,c   Gräber, Stefan ^a   Vogt, Thomas ^a   Tilgen, Wolfgang ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Mosel Eifel Klinik   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DYSESTHESIA; ECCHYMOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LASER SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHLEBITIS; PIGMENT DISORDER; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SCORING SYSTEM; SKIN BRUISING; SURGICAL INFECTION; VEIN INSUFFICIENCY; VEIN LIGATION; VEIN STRIPPING; VENOUS REFLUX; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY; LIGATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SAPHENOUS VEIN; TIME FACTORS; VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856019357     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 15383652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archdermatol.2011.272     Document Type: Article

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