title: [Surgical treatment of the lower extremities varicose veins throughout the ages].
abstract: The authors describe a historical review of surgical treatment of varicose veins from antiques to modern methods. Diseases of the veins have been recognized and attempts of their surgical resection have been described since antiquity. Hippocrates wrote about surgical treatment of varicose veins, Celsus and also Galien himself described varicose veins ligatures. The end of 19th century with Trendelenburg and Madelung was a start of modern period of varicose vein surgery. Parallel to surgical the less invasive methods of varicose veins treatment developed and gave a base for modern sclerotherapy.
authors.affiliation: II Katedra Chirurgii Ogólnej Collegium Medicum Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego w Krakowie. mkozka@interia.pl
authors.forename: Mariusz
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kózka
authors.forename: Agnieszka
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Snarska
authors.forename: Tomasz
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Drygalski
authors.forename: Mirosław
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dolecki
mesh_terms: D049669:History, 16th Century; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D014648:Varicose Veins / Q000266:history* / Q000601:surgery; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures / Q000266:history*