Randomized clinical trial of ultrasound-guided foam sclerotherapy versus surgery for the incompetent great saphenous vein

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 99, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1062-1070

  Shadid, N ^a   Ceulen, R ^c   Nelemans, P ^b   Dirksen, C ^a   Veraart, J ^a   Schurink, G W ^a   Van Neer, P ^d   Vd Kley, J ^e   De Haan, E ^d   Sommer, A ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c ALBERT SCHWEITZER HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^d LAURENTIUS HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^e Sittard Geleen Heerlen   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACROGOL DERIVATIVE; POLIDOCANOL; SCLEROSING AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY SURGERY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST; ECONOMICS; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETREATMENT; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SCLEROTHERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOSIS; VEIN INSUFFICIENCY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; RECURRENCE; RETREATMENT; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SCLEROSING SOLUTIONS; SCLEROTHERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; VARICOSE VEINS; VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 84863719668     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: 13652168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.8781     Document Type: Article

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