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Long Saphenous Veins causing skin changes.
Note the brown skin around the ankle called venous eczema or lipodermatosclerosis. |
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Post Phlebitic Limb This patient had a deep vein thrombosis after a total knee replacement. All of the valves in the deep veins are incompetent. |
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Appearance of the leg 6 weeks after long saphenous vein surgery and multiple avulsions. |
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A Colour Duplex scanner used for the investigation of
arterial and venous disease. The scanner needs to be used by a trained
technician and can be used in the assessment of many conditions.
The scan is painless and takes only a few minutes. |
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High pressure varicose veins from the saphenofemoral
junction. These veins although small to look at have caused guttering of
the tissues around them.
Treatment with varicose vein surgery removed the symptoms of leg pain and swelling. |
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Neuropathic heel ulcer
This man has no little sensation in his heel after damaging his back in a fall. He could not feel that his shoes were rubbing away his skin. The bone of the heel (Os calcis has become infected osteomyelitis) |
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Mesenteric revascularisation using a Dacron bifurcated
graft.
This patient developed severe abdominal pain caused by occlusion of the blood supply to the Coeliac and SMA vessels. The graft restored the blood supply. The patient needed some of their bowel removing as it had become gangrenous. They were living a near normal life 6 months later. |
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