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Christos Karathanos1, Konstantinos Spanos2, Vassileios Saleptsis2

  • 1Department of Vascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University Hospital of Larissa, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece christoskarathanos@yahoo.gr.

Phlebology
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Keywords:
Superficial vein thrombosisdislipidemiaprothrombin FII mutationthrombophiliavaricose veins

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