Endovenous or open venous surgery: choices to make.

Numerous techniques are available to treat varicose veins. In this overview a balance is sought between the advantages and the disadvantages of all techniques. Endovenous techniques have been introduced by comparing them with classical stripping, resulting in favourable results for the former procedures.

Relation between hospital volume and outcome of elective surgery for abdominal aortic aneurysm: a systematic review.

Objectives: Our aim was to analyse the relation between hospital volume and peri-operative mortality in abdominal aortic aneurysm surgery.

Design: Systematic review.

Method: The Medline, Embase and Cochrane databases were searched to identify all population based studies reporting on the volume outcome relationship published between 1966 and 2006.