Diseases of the Veins: Pathology, Diagnosis and Treatment

Abstract

For reasons not entirely clear to me, diseases of the veins of the extremities have never received the exposure to scrutiny and investigative interest that the arterial side of the circulation has routinely undergone. This is so despite the fact that in the general population, the incidence of such abnormalities exceeds that for involvement of the arteries. As a consequence, a poor foundation and some ambiguity exist among physicians and surgeons regarding the proper approach to diagnosis and treatment of common venous entities in the limbs. Hence, the publication of<i>Diseases of the Veins</i>, devoted entirely to abnormalities affecting the venous circulation and written by two vascular, surgeons and a radiologist, is especially welcome. With such an authorship, it is understandable why a surgical therapeutic approach is given some prominence in the volume, although medical treatment is not neglected. The first five chapters of the book are devoted to an