Acknowledgements
I would like to extend my thanks in particular to the Doctors Claudine Hamel-Desnos, Philippe Desnos and Jean Luc Gérard for the tremendous work they undertake in order to inform and train people and improve these two little known techniques of endovenous laser and foam sclerotherapy. You can get further information on http://www.endo-venous-laser.co.uk.
Thanks to Jean Jacques Biraud who has allowed me to broadcast the animated film of the procedure developed by his laboratory via this site.
Thanks to the Doctors Philippe Blanchemaison, Philippe Greney and Jérôme Camponovo for the anatomical diagrams drawn in an atlas of human anatomy developed by a pharmaceutical company.
A Duplex scan is indispensable in order to make a proper diagnosis and to determine the appropriate therapeutic indication.
An annual Duplex scan and clinical examination is essential whatever the initial technique chosen.
Proper treatment and follow-up of varicose veins may prevent many complications, which may be irreversible.