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The symptoms of varicose veins: difficult to determine and difficult to study

W B Campbell1, H Decaluwe, V Boecxstaens

  • 1Department of Surgery, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Barrack Road, Exeter EX2 5DW, UK. bruce.campbell@nice.org.uk

European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery : the Official Journal of the European Society for Vascular Surgery
|September 18, 2007
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