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.
Ersoy
U
U
Departments of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.
Güvener
M
M
Kaplan
S
S
Ozkaya
O
O
Uzunalimoğlu
B
B
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