Abstract | BACKGROUND: OBJECTIVE: To describe the innovative Sclerotherapy in Tumescent Anesthesia of Reticular veins and Telangiectasias (START) approach to achieving good results in such patients, which also proves effective in treating reticular veins. METHOD: RESULTS: In the last 6 years, we have treated more than 300 patients. Telangiectasias that had resisted several previous treatments faded or disappeared in the majority of the cases treated, but the rate of complications (pigmentation, necrosis of small areas, and tiny scars) was higher than with usual sclerotherapy. CONCLUSION: Developed after observing the good results achieved by perioperative sclerotherapy of telangiectasias during ambulatory phlebectomy, the START technique is an effective and economic treatment of therapy-resistant telangiectasias, although because the rate of complications is higher than with usual sclerotherapy of C1 veins, it should be performed only by experienced phlebologists and only on therapy-refractory vessels.
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Authors | Albert-Adrien Ramelet |
Journal | Dermatologic surgery : official publication for American Society for Dermatologic Surgery [et al.]
(Dermatol Surg)
Vol. 38
Issue 5
Pg. 748-51
(May 2012)
ISSN: 1524-4725 [Electronic] United States |
PMID | 22268802
(Publication Type: Journal Article)
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Copyright | © 2012 by the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery, Inc. Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. |
Chemical References |
- Sclerosing Solutions
- Polidocanol
- Polyethylene Glycols
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Topics |
- Anesthesia, Local
(methods)
- Female
- Humans
- Leg
(blood supply)
- Male
- Polidocanol
- Polyethylene Glycols
(therapeutic use)
- Sclerosing Solutions
(therapeutic use)
- Sclerotherapy
(methods)
- Telangiectasis
(therapy)
- Varicose Veins
(therapy)
- Vision Disorders
(etiology)
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