Operation for bilateral superficial femoral-vein ligation was begun, under local anesthesia, within one hour after the acute onset of pain. A thrombus was removed from the right superficial ...

Postoperative heparinization was used in 20 of the 34 cases demonstrating wound hematomas in the femoral-vein-ligation group, in only 3 of the 13 wound infections, and in 7 of the 16 lymph fistulas.

According to the literature, exercise increases blood return and the veins of the superficial venous system and communicating ... which together allowed for the evaluation of the anatomy and ...