Surgery for recurrent varicose veins: Toward a less-invasive approach?

Perspectives in Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 244-249

  De Maeseneer, Marianne ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

foam sclerotherapy; phlebectomies; saphenofemoral junction; varicose veins

Indexed keywords

LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN;

ABLATION THERAPY; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIMITED REDO SURGERY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHLEBECTOMY; PHLEBOTOMY; POPLITEAL VEIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SCLEROTHERAPY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VARICOSIS; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ABLATION TECHNIQUES; BELGIUM; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; SCLEROTHERAPY; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VARICOSE VEINS; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 84856788799     PISSN: 15310035     EISSN: 15310027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1531003511408338     Document Type: Review

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