The sapheno femoral junction involvement in the treatment of varicose veins disease

Primary varicose veins: the sapheno-femoral junction, distribution of varicosities and patterns of incompetence.

OBJECTIVE to determine the patterns of long saphenous vein (LSV) disease in primary varicose veins (VVs). DESIGN a retrospective analysis of venous duplex scans performed on patients referred for treatment of primary VVs. METHODS analysis was made of sapheno-femoral junction (SFJ) incompetence, non-SFJ incompetence, segmental and perforating vein incompetence, distribution of varicosities, ...

The Treatment of Varicose Veins

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The treatment of varicose veins.

INTRODUCTION Over the past few years, there has been a move to less invasive endoluminal methods in the treatment of lower limb varicose veins combined with a renewed interest in sclerotherapy, with the recent addition of foam sclerotherapy. The development of these new techniques has led many to question some of the more conventional teaching on the treatment of varicose veins. This review exa...

The Injection Treatment of Varicose Veins

Operative Treatment of Varicose Veins

On the same day Mr. Marshall, in the University College Hospital, operated in the following manner on varicose veins of the right leg in a young woman :?A bandage was first applied round the limb, just above the knee-joint, in order to produce distension of the affected veins. Under the thickest masses of varix "were passed large broad needles, resembling very much those formerly used for inser...