Treatment of Primary Varicose Veins Has Changed with the Introduction of New Techniques

Seminars in Vascular Surgery

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 18-24

  Mowatt Larssen, Eric ^a   Shortell, Cynthia K ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY SELECTIVE VARICES ABLATION UNDER LOCAL ANESTHESIA; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC VENOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LASER SURGERY; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE VENOGRAPHY; PERFORATOR VEIN TREATMENT; PHLEBECTOMY; PHLEBOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIMARY VARICOSE VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RECURRENCE RISK; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SCLEROTHERAPY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STENT; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THERMAL ABLATION; VARICOSIS; VEIN STRIPPING;

AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ANESTHESIA, LOCAL; CATHETER ABLATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY; LIGATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SCLEROTHERAPY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; VARICOSE VEINS; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 84861011398     PISSN: 08957967     EISSN: 15584518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semvascsurg.2012.02.002     Document Type: Article

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