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Abstract
Impaired venous blood flow or venous return (venous stasis), usually caused by inadequate venous valves. Venous insufficiency often occurs in the legs, and is associated with EDEMA and sometimes with VENOUS STASIS ULCERS at the ankle.
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- Insufficiencies, Venous
- Insufficiency, Venous
- Venous Insufficiencies
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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general or unspecified but usually of the legs; coordinate IM with specific vein (IM) or organ /blood supply (IM) if pertinent
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- Vascular Diseases (1966-1972)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Venous Insufficiency. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D014689. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D014689
- Venous Insufficiency. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9008818