title: Removal of periocular eyelid veins by ambulatory phlebectomy with a regular crochet hook.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report the authors' experience using a regular crochet hook for removing blue periocular eyelid veins.
  
  
  METHODS
  This article describes a new surgical procedure. Twenty-one procedures were performed in 15 patients who underwent removal of blue periocular lower eyelid veins with the implementation of a regular crochet hook.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There was no clinical evidence of treatment failure during the subsequent 12 months, nor did any new veins appear.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Periocular vein removal with a Crochet hook is safe and successful. It can augment blepharoplasty results.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oculoplastics, Orbit, and Lacrimal Ducts, Hospital Italiano, Buenos Aires, Argentina. rodolfovigo@gmail.com
authors.forename: Rodolfo L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Vigo
authors.forename: Jorge
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Premoli
mesh_terms: D000556:Ambulatory Surgical Procedures; D005143:Eyelids / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D013508:Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures; D013518:Surgery, Plastic; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014648:Varicose Veins / Q000601:surgery*; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures / Q000295:instrumentation*