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Characterisation of biological factors in the pathogenesis of varicose veins
2014-01-01
Abstract excerpt
Varicose veins affect one third of adults. Complications of varicose veins can have detrimental effects on the patient's quality of life. Morphological changes including intimal hyperplasia, smooth muscle cells hypertrophy or atrophy and irregularities of extracellular matrix contents have demarcated varicose from non-varicose veins. Some of the biological mechanisms behind these changes have been illustrated by t...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 958d9497-5dcc-5187-9e68-19a3a9393b73
- DOI
- 10.25560/24693