Treatment of severe chronic venous insufficiency with ultrasound-guided foam sclerotherapy: A two-year series in a single center in Brazil

Phlebology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 113-118

  Neto, F Coelho ^a   de Araujo G ^b   Kessler, I Moraes ^a   de Amorim, R Fernandes Batista ^a   Falcão, D Pinheiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^b Hospital Regional da Asa Norte   (Brazil)

Author keywords

sclerotherapy; varicose veins; Venous disease; venous ulceration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; BURN; CHRONIC PATIENT; CHRONIC VEIN INSUFFICIENCY; COMORBIDITY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MCNEMAR TEST; MEDICAL RECORD; MIDDLE AGED; OPERATING ROOM; PAIN; PARESTHESIA; PHLEBITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REAL TIME ULTRASOUND SCANNER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCLEROTHERAPY; SURGICAL PATIENT; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND GUIDED FOAM SCLEROTHERAPY; VALSALVA MANEUVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; ECHOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY;

ADULT; AGED; BRAZIL; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCLEROTHERAPY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 84924867028     PISSN: 02683555     EISSN: 14333031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0268355513517225     Document Type: Article

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