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Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 386478, 6 pages
doi:10.1100/2012/386478
Clinical Study

Management of Symptomatic Venous Aneurysm

Roberto Gabrielli,1 Maria Sofia Rosati,2 Andrea Siani,1 and Luigi Irace1

1Department of Vascular Surgery, Policlinico Umberto I, Sapienza University of Rome, 00161 Rome, Italy
2Department of Oncology, Policlinico Umberto I, Sapienza University of Rome, 00161, Italy

Received 17 October 2011; Accepted 13 December 2011

Academic Editors: E. Ishimura and P. Quax

Copyright © 2012 Roberto Gabrielli et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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