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Endovenous Ablation of varicose veins

This 82 years old gentleman describes his experience of having a left long saphenous vein ablation procedure as a day case under local anaesthetic for symptomatic varicose veins. He only had radio-frequency ablation of the long saphenous vein but did not require any phlebotomies (avulsions).

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