Hitherto undescribed venous vacuolar myopathy without mucoid degeneration in the varicose saphenous vein of a child.
Varicose vein abnormalities involving the lesser saphenous vein of a 7-year-old boy are presented. The histopathology of the vein wall revealed a vacuolar degeneration without mucoid deposits of the muscle cells, which has not been described previously in the literature in congenital varices.
Departments of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.
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Ersoy
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Güvener
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Kaplan
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Ozkaya
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Uzunalimoğlu
D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009131:Muscle, Smooth, Vascular / Q000473:pathology*; D020914:Myopathies, Structural, Congenital / Q000473:pathology*; D014617:Vacuoles / Q000473:pathology*; D014648:Varicose Veins / Q000151:congenital* / Q000473:pathology