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International Angiology 2015 June;34(3):202-18

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Society for Vascular Surgery and American Venous Forum Guidelines on the management of venous leg ulcers: the point of view of the International Union of Phlebology

Mosti G. ¹, De Maeseneer M. ², Cavezzi A. ³, Parsi K. ⁴, Morrison N. ⁵, Nelzen O. ⁶, Rabe E. ⁷, Partsch H. ⁸, Caggiati A. ⁹, Simka M. ¹⁰, Obermayer A. ¹¹, Malouf M. ¹², Flour M. ¹³, Maleti O. ¹⁴, Perrin M. ¹⁵, Reina L. ¹⁶, Kalodiki E. ¹⁷, Mannello F. ¹⁸, Rerkasem K. ¹⁹, Cornu-Thenard A. ²⁰, Chi Y. W. ²¹, Soloviy M. ²², Bottini O. ²³, Mendyk N. ²⁴, Tessari L. ²⁵, Varghese R. ²⁶, Etcheverry R. ²⁷, Pannier F. ²⁸, Lugli M. ¹⁴, Carvallo Lantz A. J. ²⁹, Zamboni P. ³⁰, Zuolo M. ³⁰, Godoy M. F. ³¹, Godoy J. M. ³², Link D. P. ³³, Junger M. ³⁴, Scuderi A. ³⁵

¹ Department of Angiology, Barbantini Clinic, Lucca, Italy; ² Department of Dermatology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; ³ Eurocenter Venalinfa, San Benedetto Del Tronto, Ascoli Piceno, Italy; ⁴ Department of Dermatology, St. Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, Australia; ⁵ Morrison Vein Institute, Scottsdale, AZ, USA; ⁶ Vascular Surgery, Department of Research and Development and Vascular Surgery Unit, Skaraborg Hospital Skoevde and Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; ⁷ Department of Dermatology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany; ⁸ Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; ⁹ Department of Anatomy, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy; ¹⁰ College of Applied Sciences, Department of Nursing, Ruda Slaska, Poland; ¹¹ Institute of Functional Phlebologic Surgery, Karl Landsteiner Society, Melk, Austria; ¹² Department of Surgery, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia; ¹³ Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; ¹⁴ Vascular Surgery, Department of Cardiac-Vascular-Thoracic Surgery, Hesperia Hospital, Modena, Italy; ¹⁵ Vascular Surgery, Chemin de Decines, Chassieu, France; ¹⁶ Vascular Surgery Department, Cruz Roja Hospital, Madrid, Spain; ¹⁷ Vascular Surgery Department, Ealing Hospital, Imperial College, London, UK; ¹⁸ Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Section of Clinical Biochemistry and Cell Biology, “Carlo Bo” University, Urbino, Italy; ¹⁹ Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand; ²⁰ Department of Phlebology-Cardiology, Saint Antoine Hospital, Paris, France; ²¹ Davis Medical Center, University of California, Sacramento, CA, USA; ²² Faculty of Surgery, Lviv National University of Medicine, Lviv, Ukraine; ²³ Hospital de Clínicas “José de San Martín”, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina; ²⁴ Buenos Aires, Argentina; ²⁵ Fondazione Glauco Bassi, Trieste, Italy; ²⁶ Department of Vascular Surgery, Jubelee Mission Medica College, Trichur, Kerala, India; ²⁷ Vascular Surgery and Phlebology Service, Hospital Universitario Austral, Buenos Aires, Argentina; ²⁸ Department of Dermatology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany; ²⁹ Department of Angiology, Policlinica Metropolitana, Caracas, Venezuela; ³⁰ Vascular Diseases Center, Ferrara University Hospital, Ferrara, Italy; ³¹ Department of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery, School of Medicine, São Jose do Rio Preto, Brazil; ³² School of Medicine, São Jose do Rio Preto, Brazil; ³³ Interventional and Vascular Radiology, Lawrence J. Ellison Ambulatory Care Center, Sacramento, CA, USA; ³⁴ Department of Dermatology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany; ³⁵ UIP President, Sorocaba, SP, Brazil