2020 Volume 60 Issue 2 Pages 13-17
A total 176 patients of recurrent varicose veins underwent surgical re-operation for these 10 years. Their initial treatments consisted of 135 cases of surgical ligation, 34 cases of stripping surgery, and 7 cases of endovenous thermal ablation. Many of the patients (163 cases, 93%) underwent initial treatments at outside of our clinic. Among 6,878 surgical cases which underwent in our clinic, re-operation for recurrence was 13 cases (0.2%).