Abstract

HERNANDEZ RIVERO, Manuel Jorge et al. Use of foam sclerotherapy in the treatment of varicose ulcers of lower extremities. Rev Cubana Med Gen Integr [online]. 2010, vol.26, n.3. ISSN 0864-2125.

The varicose ulcer is one of the more frequent and fearsome complications of chronic venous insufficiency due to its symptomatology and disability provoked in a patient with a history of lower extremities varices and the high related costs. This is the case a patient with a background of lower extremities varices and a varicose ulcer of some years of evolution in the left lower limb unmanageable for different treatments being necessary to perform the foam sclerotherapy technique achieving its healing with a favorable course.

Keywords : Foam sclerotherapy; varicose ulcer.

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