femoral-vein ligation and anticoagulation. In addition, the advisability of inferior-vena-cava ligation in critically ill patients and specifically in symptomatic cardiac patients is open to question.

Vein ligation and stripping is a minor surgery. It is used to remove a damaged vein and prevent complications of vein damage. If several valves in a vein and the vein itself are heavily damaged, the ...

We have therefore chosen certain arbitrary minimum criteria of "adequacy" when anticoagulation was the method of treatment, all other cases not treated by venous ligation being classified as ...

This process allows sclerotherapy treatment to be used on larger varicose veins that previously could only be treated surgically with ligation and stripping, in which larger varicose veins are tied ...

Just as ablative catheter techniques have made open ligation and stripping a historic procedure, new techniques in the removal of varicose veins are challenging traditional stab phlebectomy.