[Sclerotherapy in children]

The treatment of superficial venous pathology of child is still not very developed. Yet, the frequency is certainly above the estimation of 2% made in 1969. The importance of its expansion should leads us to consider a precocious treatment. Every delay might be the source of difficulties in the future therapeutics. The preliminary non prospective study realized here, includes 43 young patients, whose mothers had varicose. The functional investigations were made after a clinical examination evocative of anomaly and they permit to evidence 6 significant reflux. The therapeutic attitude depended on the type of disease observed going from abstention till surgery. A soft sclerotherapy, generally well accepted, was a successful method without complications. The results difficult to evaluate except in case of reflux, were generally good. The main difficulty is the acceptance of this method by the medical staff, after the parents' agreement. The sclerotherapy is perfectly possible in childhood, often to be wished in case of disease, sometimes necessary, but must remain careful.