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Article: Recent studies by V.K.M. Tan and co-authors add new data to varicose vein findings.(Clinical report)
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- June 24, 2009
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According to recent research from Singapore, Singapore, "The aim of this study was to describe an original technique of using ultrasound-guided foam sclerotherapy in the long saphenous veins (LSV) for the treatment of varicose veins, and report the early results. Only patients with lower limb varicose veins and demonstrable incompetent saphenofemoral junction with reflux down the LSVs underwent ultrasound-guided injection of foam sclerosant into the LSV."
"Foam sclerosant was made by the Tessari's method using three percent sodium tetradecyl sulphate to air in a 1:3 ratio. The LSV was accessed below the knee with a micropuncture set. A Headhunter angiographic ...