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edited by Mitchel P. Goldman, MD, Robert A. Weiss, MD, and John J. Bergan, MD, 500 pp, with illus, $95, ISBN 1-57626-097-6, St Louis, Mo, Quality Medical Publishing Inc, 1999.

Arch Surg. 1999;134:1279.

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This book provides a "how I do it" approach to superficial venous disease. The underlying theme is that a wide variety of therapeutic options are available for varicose veins and telangiectasias. This is likely due to the fact that the book is written by clinicians from different disciplines including surgery, dermatology, and radiology. The authors also come from a broad geographic base including the United States, England, Australia, the Netherlands, Canada, Germany, Sweden, France, and Colombia. Unfortunately, this results in redundancy in some areas of the text and leaves the reader confused on issues where conflicting dogmas are advocated.

The 2 major treatment modalities that this text focuses on are surgical removal of varicose veins and sclerotherapy. There is very little comparison of these 2 approaches; rather, each individual author discusses a therapeutic approach from their individual and often experiential perspective. There is only limited review of the extant literature . . . [Full Text of this Article]