Ultrasound-guided foam sclerotherapy of the saphenous trunks is associated with a low 5-year recurrence rate and improved quality of life in patients with chronic venous disease: A multicenter study.

Objective: The study attempts to test whether ultrasound-guided foam sclerotherapy (UGFS) is a durable treatment for incompetent great saphenous vein (GSV) and incompetent small saphenous vein (SSV) in primary chronic venous disease (CVD), Clinical-Etiology-Anatomy-Pathophysiology (CEAP) clinical grade 2 to 4 disease. Secondary end points are to evaluate its safety in terms of complications, to compare patients' quality of life before and after the treatment, and to identify risk factors that may predict recurrence of CVD after UGFS.

Methods: Multicenter retrospective cohort study on 346 patients.

A staged use of tourniquet does not influence the fast-track recovery after total knee arthroplasty: a prospective randomized study.

Introduction: Upper-tight tourniquet is widely used in Total Knee Arthroplasty in different modalities. However, it has been associated with a negative impact on post-operative muscle strength end pain. This study aimed to investigate the effect of tourniquet on post-operative pain and recovery in enhanced recovery joint surgery.

Relationship Between Sensory Symptoms, Mulder's Sign, and Dynamic Ultrasonographic Findings in Morton's Neuroma.

Background: Morton's neuroma (MN) is often a diagnostic dilemma lacking a gold standard set of diagnostic criteria. Advanced imaging of MN is evolving including ultrasonography. The current study aimed to analyze the relationship between ultrasonographic findings and symptoms, clinical data, and operative findings in a subgroup of patients.

Selective high ligation of the sapheno-femoral junction decreases the neovascularization and the recurrent varicose veins in the operated groin.

Aim: High ligation (HL) and stripping of GSV can be distinguished in Babcock's radical ligation (RHL), and selective (SHL): the new technique consists to ligate the SFJ keeping some of the tributary veins. The study analyzes the neovascularization and recurrence incidence in the groin after the SHL.

Methods: A retrospective study performed in a center specialized in venous surgery in Italy, it included 360 patients underwent unilateral varicose vein surgery from January 2001 to December 2008 (210 females and 150 males, mean aged 51.