Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 43, Issue 3 , Pages 563-569 , March 2006

Correlation of severity of chronic venous disease with capillary morphology assessed by capillary microscopy

Presented at the 17th Annual meeting of the American Venous Forum, San Diego, USA, Feb 9-13, 2005.

Received 24 January 2005 ,Accepted 25 October 2005.

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 Competition of interest: none.

PII: S0741-5214(05)02054-9

doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2005.10.077

Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 43, Issue 3 , Pages 563-569 , March 2006

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