Ultrasound-guided foam sclerotherapy for treating incompetent great saphenous veins - Results of 5 years of analysis and morphologic evolvement study

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 851-857

  Chen, Chien Hsun ^a,b   Chiu, Cheng Sheng ^a,b   Yang, Chih Hsun ^a,b  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; LEG VARICOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SCLEROTHERAPY; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND GUIDED FOAM SCLEROTHERAPY; VEIN DIAMETER; VEIN INSUFFICIENCY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRALESIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SCLEROSING SOLUTIONS; SCLEROTHERAPY; SODIUM TETRADECYL SULFATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VARICOSE VEINS;

EID: 84861803675     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2012.02408.x     Document Type: Article

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