Vein ligation and stripping is a minor surgery. It is used to remove a damaged vein and prevent complications of vein damage. If several valves in a vein and the vein itself are heavily damaged, the ...
femoral-vein ligation and anticoagulation. In addition, the advisability of inferior-vena-cava ligation in critically ill patients and specifically in symptomatic cardiac patients is open to question.
Just as ablative catheter techniques have made open ligation and stripping a historic procedure, new techniques in the removal of varicose veins are challenging traditional stab phlebectomy.