Five-year results of a randomized clinical trial of conventional surgery, endovenous laser ablation and ultrasound-guided foam sclerotherapy in patients with great saphenous varicose veins

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 102, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1184-1194

  Van Der Velden, S K ^a   Biemans, A A M ^b   De Maeseneer, M G R ^a,d   Kockaert, M A ^a   Cuypers, P W ^c   Hollestein, L M ^a   Neumann, H A M ^a   Nijsten, T ^a   Van Den Bos, R R ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b CPRLab   (Netherlands)

^c CATHARINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCLEROSING AGENT;

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROCEDURES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SCLEROTHERAPY; SURGERY; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOSE VEINS; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SCLEROSING SOLUTIONS; SCLEROTHERAPY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOSE VEINS; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 84939262700     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: 13652168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.9867     Document Type: Article

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