Five-year follow-up of a randomized, controlled trial comparing saphenofemoral ligation and stripping of the great saphenous vein with endovenous laser ablation (980 nm) using local tumescent anesthesia

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 420-428

  Gauw, Stefanie A ^a   Lawson, James A ^a   Van Vlijmen Van Keulen, Clarissa J ^a   Pronk, Pascal ^a   Gaastra, Menno T W ^a   Mooij, Michael C ^a  

^a Centrum Oosterwal Dermatologie and Flebologie   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ABLATION THERAPY; ADULT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTHETIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GREAT SAPHENOUS VEIN OCCLUSION; GREAT SAPHENOUS VEIN STRIPPING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LASER SURGERY; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION DEVICE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECANALIZATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; SAPHENOFEMORAL LIGATION; SCLEROTHERAPY; STAGING; VARICOSIS; VEIN OCCLUSION; VEIN SURGERY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVICES; DUPLEX DOPPLER ULTRASONOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LIGATION; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOSE VEINS; VASCULAR SURGERY; VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, LOCAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LASER THERAPY; LIGATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECURRENCE; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VARICOSE VEINS; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 84957426720     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: 10976809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2015.08.084     Document Type: Conference Paper

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