SCLEROTIZING INJECTIONS IN VARICES OF THE LOWER EXTREMITIES

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The wealth of material at my disposal and the opportunity afforded me to observe innumerable cases under the sclerotizing treatment for varicose veins have prompted this additional report. Since my first publication, I have treated approximately 3,000 cases with more than 10,000 injections. The additional data obtained have been so valuable not only in the technic but also in the prognosis of this form of treatment that I have deemed the material of sufficient interest to report. The types of veins originally described1were the saccular, tortuous, uniformly dilated and fine cutaneous stellate or horsehair variety. I have since become acquainted with another type of vein, the so-called penetrating variety. This vein derives its name from the clinical fact that with the examining finger it can be practically inverted, the finger actually entering into the communicating vein. This is indicative of a valvular deficiency in the communicating vein between

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