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Treatment of varicose veins has conventionally relied on surgery for the implicated high recurrence rates with non surgical methods ,like older forms of visual sclerotherapy (8-12). But follow up studies demonstrate that recurrent varicosities after surgery (REVAS) occur in almost 20-80% of patients at 5 to 20 years post surgery (13). Almost 50% of patients of failed varicose vein surgery will require repeat surgery within five years. The rate of recurrence increases with the type of surgery, higher after high ligation. Surgical management has inherent complications and invasive techniques are often expensive. An audit of the surgeries done for varicosities revealed that there is an overall complication rate of 18% with commonly incurred nerve injuries in the range of 10-35% (14-17). Nerve injury post stripping surgery is relatively common and could give permanent loss of sensation in the site of surgery .
Cost benefit studies demonstrate that the new version of sclerotherapy, (Ultrasound guided sclerotherapy ) could cost twice that of older , visual sclerotherapy but then it is only 10% of t