[Iatrogenic traumatic lesions of femoral veins during varicose veins surgery]
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Pereira, Albino; N, Meireles; J, Martins; J S, Castro; J, Duarte; A, Gonçalves; C, Amaral; V, Bettencourt; D, Gonçalves; M, Capitão; S, Carvalho
- Source
- Revista portuguesa de cirurgia cardio-toracica e vascular : orgao oficial da Sociedade Portuguesa de Cirurgia Cardio-Toracica e Vascular. 10(2)
- Subject
- Adult
Male
Varicose Veins
Humans
Female
Femoral Vein
Middle Aged
Intraoperative Complications
- Language
- ISSN
- 0873-7215
Traumatic lesions of the femoral veins during varicose veins surgery are very uncommon and they raise several therapeutic difficulties. They occur in 1/1000 cases of varicose veins operated. The authors describe four cases of lesions of this type that were seen and treated for the last six years, probably because there was an increase in the number of varicose veins operated on in the Lisbon area. The authors discuss the surgical options and they concluded that these complications can be minimized with good anatomical and surgical skills, specially of the saphenous-femoral and saphenous-popliteal junctions.