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 ...

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 ...

Read before the Boston Surgical Society, January 17, 1940. From the Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Hospital, and the Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School. "There is a sense of ...

Vein Stripping or Ligation: Surgical removal of veins in advanced cases. Ambulatory Phlebectomy: Removing veins through small skin punctures. Early recognition and management can prevent ...

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.