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An Operation to Deal with Perforator Incompetence

THEODORE B. MASSELL, M.D.; E. CRAIG HERINGMAN, M.D.; SEYMOUR GREENSTONE, M.D.

AMA Arch Surg. 1957;74(1):112-121.

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Without doubt, the commonest disease in the field of angiology is varicose veins of the lower extremities. Inasmuch as this affliction is as old as the upright posture of the human race and is easily diagnosed, one should expect that its therapy would by now be well established and effective. Yet the treatment of varicosis has gone through numerous cycles, and surgical opinion is still not unanimous. This lack of enthusiasm for most of the operative procedures hitherto devised can be understood if one surveys the end-results of these procedures.^1-5 Some of the unsatisfactory results are due to obvious technical errors committed by inexperienced operators,^6,7 but even in the hands of well-qualified surgeons the late results of varicose vein surgery are generally unsatisfactory.

The chief cause for the recurrence of varicosis was pointed out by Sherman⁸ as long as 12 years ago. He demonstrated that the usual . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Los Angeles

Footnotes
Received for publication July 6, 1956.

Presented at the Fourth Scientific Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Society of Angiology, Chicago, June 9, 1956.

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