Hidden perforating veins.

The surgical treatment of incompetent perforating veins.

Ulceration of the skin of the lower limb has been recorded as an affliction of the human race since the time of Hippocrates. It is almost certainly the price we pay for having emerged from the ocean and learned to stand erect. 1 The association between ulceration at the ankle and venous disorders of the lower limb has been known for over 2000 years and compression therapy is referred to in the ...

Thermographic Localization of Incompetent Perforating Veins

It is, howvver, difficult to explain on this basis how a patienmay resp6nd again once resistance has occurred (Figs. 1-4). For these reasons we believe that asparaginase should be used in combination with other drugs in the treatment of acute leukaemia. Although when used alone it does not produce complete remission in acute myeloid leukaemia, it still may have a part to play when used in combi...

Perforating Veins by Venography at Operation

All types of varicose veins can be treated successfully by a radical stripping operation in which the whole system of diseased veins and related perforating veins is removed (Myers, 1957; Arenander, 1960; Sherman, 1964). Simple procedures such as high ligation, with or without stripping of the main saphenous trunk, though widely practised, are much less successful, even in the early and uncompl...

Ultrasound guided sclerotherapy (USGS) for perforating veins (PV).

Subfascial endoscopic ligation in the treatment of incompetent perforating veins.

OBJECTIVES To assess the technique of subfascial endoscopic ligation of incompetent perforatory veins by use of a mediastinoscope. DESIGN Prospective open clinic study. SETTING Two Departments of Surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty-eight consecutive patients (40 legs) with recurrent or protracted venous ulceration of the lower leg were treated. Through a short, transverse incision of th...