[Surgical Treatment of Essential Varices and Their Recurrences]

On the ground of the experience matured in about 800 operations for varicose veins of the lower limb carried out in a period of time of 3 years and a half in the surgical department of the Valduce Hospital of Como, the authors want to bring a personal contribution on the study of some problems, still enough controversial, on the many diagnostic and curative modalities of the essential varices and their relapses. Taking this treatment as starting point, an important speech is open on the anatomic and clinic findings and pathogenesis of the varicose relapses by the light of the phlebographic researches carried out in patients affected of recidivous varices and verified, later on, at the operative table.