External valvuloplasty has been gaining in popularity as an alternative treatment for incompetent great saphenous veins. The procedure involves the implantation of a synthetic cuff around the saphenofemoral junction to compress the vein to a physiological diameter and thus restore the competence of the terminal and preterminal veins (1) (▶ Fig. 1). The important advantage of this method is that...

Background: Chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) is a condition that affects the system of lower extremities rendering superficial, perforating, and deep veins incompetent. This results in hypertension causing various pathologies including pain, swelling, edema, skin changes ulcerations. Traditionally SFJ incompetence was viewed as primary pathology for varicose Trendelenburg’s surgery considered...

INTRODUCTION: The upper third of thigh the area femoral triangle, or Scarpas is great importance both in anatomy and vascular surgery. It place passage main vessels lower extremities: artery, vein their largest tributaries which are easily accessible this region due to superficial location. To note, surgery, divided common ones depending on level location relative deep vessels. This division ex...