[Surgery of essential varicose veins].
Idiopathic varicose veins of the lower limbs are a frequent but benign disorder. Surgery is only a moment in the course of the disease. Although not the only treatment of essential varicose veins, surgery by an experienced team performing crossectomy, stripping by intussusception using a stripper, and phlebectomy gives fully satisfactory results, both to patient and to physician, in over 80% of cases. New techniques were recently developed that, at present, have not confirmed early hopes.
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Unité de chirurgie vasculaire, hôpital Les Peupliers, Croix-rouge française, Paris.
D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods; D014648:Varicose Veins / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D014689:Venous Insufficiency / Q000150:complications*
Chirurgie des varices essentielles.