Prospective randomized controlled trial: Conventional versus powered phlebectomy

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 88-93

  Aremu, M A ^a   Mahendran, B ^a   Butcher, W ^a   Khan, Z ^a   Colgan, M P ^a   Moore, D J ^a   Madhavan, P ^a   Shanik, D G ^a   Bell, Peter R ^b   McLafferty, Robert B ^b   Schanzer, Harry ^b   Adelman, Mark A ^b   Dalsing, Michael C ^b  

^a ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY RESISTANCE; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ESTHETIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE INJURY; OPERATION DURATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PARESTHESIA; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHLEBECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENCE RISK; SAFETY; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSILLUMINATED POWERED PHLEBECTOMY; VARICOSIS; VEIN LIGATION; VEIN STRIPPING; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 9144249634     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2003.09.044     Document Type: Article

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