[Forensic medical implications in surgery of chronic venous insufficiency of the legs]

Current literature and personal experience with these complications are discussed. Complications with medicolegal implications have been analyzed in three studies, in France by J. Natali and A. Rispoli (Marseille, 1994) and in Great Britain by W.G. Tennant and C.V. Ruckley. The incidences reported are certainly underestimated as only those complications leading to an official expert opinion were counted. We also report our personal experience with medicolegal implications after 15,340 limb operations performed from 1968 to 1994. The conclusions provide an overall view of how to reduce the number of complications and provide adequate therapeutic management.