[Surgical procedures with esthetic purpose in the stripping of the great saphenous vein]

The state of a varicose leg derives more often from the disintegration of the skin or the dystrophy of the sub-cutaneous cellular tissue than from the varices themselves. Surgery of varices should take aesthetics into account. Incisions must therefore be limited in number and size. They should be camouflaged by the natural folds of the skin. Surgery of lypodystrophies deals chiefly with those fatty deposits resisting slimming treatments. Excess skin, residual sub-cutaneous fat and varices are removed at the end. This resection also involves the lifting of the skin on the thigh.