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In any case, a dilated varicosed saphenous vein would not likely be a good candidate for a bypass graft.
Using ultrasound guidance, vascular surgeons insert a thin wire into the saphenous vein.
Commonly used sites for catheterization include the basilic, cephalic, saphenous popliteal, external jugular, and temporal veins.
It is imperative that each side branch of the saphenous vein be identified and bleeding be controlled before division.
Patients having greater saphenous incompetence may undergo ligation and division of the greater saphenous vein.
The treatment of old saphenous vein graft stenosis with coronary angioplasty has a high rate of restenosis and clinical events.
During coronary artery bypass graft surgery, a general surgeon is asked by the cardiac surgeon to harvest a saphenous vein.
From the ankle, the saphenous vein ascends the calf along the border of the gastrocnemius muscle.
The saphenous sometimes provides the medial dorsal digital nerve to the great toe.
The popliteal occasionally provides a small saphenous artery that courses with the vein of the same name and the sural nerve to the tarsus.
The patellar branch of the saphenous nerve may arise from the nerve to vastus medialis.
Then the long saphenous vein causing the problem will usually be removed by the insertion of an instrument called a stripper.
By closing the great saphenous vein, the twisted and varicosed branch veins which are close to the skin shrink and improve in appearance.
After ligation of the right coronary artery, bypass grafting with a saphenous vein was performed.
Both saphenous veins are clinically important because of their propensity for becoming varicosed.
It becomes superficial and descends with the great saphenous vein along the medial border of the tibia as far as the middle of the instep.
They are situated very superficially medial to the long saphenous vein and tend to be multiple, anastomosed between each other and tortuous.
Above the popliteal vein. the short saphenous vein travels in a fascial sheath.
In this position, the weight of the body is borne by the other leg and the fascial tension on the short saphenous vein is released.
The saphenous nerve is entirely sensory and supplies the skin on the medial side of the leg and foot via medial crural and infrapatellar branches.
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A vestige of this saphenous artery, however, remains in Man as the anastomotica magna.
In the leg the sciatic and saphenous nerves are partly mapped out, giving to the patient the appearance of an anatomical diagram.
A new sheath may be provided for the tendon by resecting a portion of the great saphenous vein.
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