Combined treatment with compression therapy and ablation of incompetent superficial and perforating veins reduces ulcer recurrence in patients with CEAP 5 venous disease

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 446-450

  Harlander Locke, Michael ^a   Lawrence, Peter ^b   Jimenez, Juan Carlos ^b   Rigberg, David ^b   Derubertis, Brian ^b   Gelabert, Hugh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEAP 5 CLASSIFICATION; COMPRESSION GARMENT; COMPRESSION THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOVENOUS ABLATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIPODERMATOSCLEROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN; PATIENT MONITORING; PERIPHERAL VEIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCER; ULCER HEALING; VEIN DISEASE; VEIN PERFORATION;

ABLATION TECHNIQUES; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DERMATITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PRESSURE; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCLERODERMA, LOCALIZED; STOCKINGS, COMPRESSION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VARICOSE ULCER; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84856096602     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: 10976809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2011.08.009     Document Type: Article

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