[Vascular ulcers of the lower extremities of aged patients]

Of the importance of chronic veinous insufficiency in the etiology of the ischaemic troubles of the legs and also, for the same reasons, of the feet and toes, troubles often wrongly considered as exclusively of arterial origin. Of the interest of suppressing the points of veinous reflux, even when no varicose condition is detected, notably on the arteritic selected upon functional vascular explorations and T C Po2 (transcutaneous Oxygen pressure). In the present case, a frequent, not to say almost constant, indication of sclerotherapy and crossectomy (arch of the aorta).