Perioperative sclerotherapy. A survey of current practice by Italian phlebologically-active physicians.

Aim: To find out how and when Italian phlebologically-active physicians apply perioperative sclerotherapy.

Material And Methods: A questionnaire was e-mailed to the members of three different Italian Societies of Phlebology. The answers were collected in a database (SPSS19 for Windows) and statistically evaluated.

[Leg ulcer: proposal of a new method for comparing different wound dressings].

The study proposes a new method for measuring peripheral trophic lesions (leg ulcers) of the same patient medicated with different type of dressing, avoiding errors of evaluation due to comparing different patients who generally present different concomitant pathologies and aetiologies wigh are hard to compare. We studied the wound care of 11 patients with leg ulcers. Half of the ulceration was treated with a traditional dressing (group A) and the other half with a more advanced type of dressing (group B).