[Plastic surgery treatment of chronic venous ulcera cruris]

Due to basic differences between the conservative and surgical approaches to the treatment of chronic venous leg ulcer, there are still a large variety of different therapeutic strategies applied today. Satisfactory results in the treatment of this kind of recurrent ulcers can only be achieved by a combination of plastic and vascular surgical techniques. Our surgical procedure is illustrated by 30 cases treated between 1990 and 1993.