Extensive Varix of Internal Saphena System on Left Leg, of many years' standing.
If the small saphena system also is involved, and if communicating branches are dilated, the veins fill up from below more rapidly.
Thrombosis in Tortuous and Pouched Great Saphena Vein, in longitudinal section.
Normally the valves in the femoral and iliac veins and in the inferior vena cava are imperfectly developed, so that in the erect posture the great saphena receives a large share of the backward pressure of the column of venous blood.
When, on the contrary, the upper part of the saphena and its valves are intact, and only the more distal veins are involved, the pressure is not so high and there is comparatively little suffering.
The operation of Trendelenburg is especially appropriate to cases in which the trunk of the great saphena vein in the thigh is alone involved.
In the lower extremity the varicosity most commonly affects the vessels of the great saphena system; less frequently those of the small saphena system.
The most typical example of this form of phlebitis is that so frequently met with in the great saphena vein, especially when it is varicose.
When the whole length of the main trunk of the great saphena is implicated, the pressure in the vein is high and the patient suffers a good deal of pain and discomfort.
The continuity of the artery may be restored by grafting into the gap left after excision of the sac a segment of the great saphena vein.
Many patients have died of this disease, induced by the application of a ligature to the vena saphena major, for the cure of varix.
In some cases, the saphena minor is also varicose to some extent, the varices on which must also be obliterated.
The popliteal vein joined by the short saphena vein.
A vein (anterior saphena) may be found to cross in this situation, but the saphena vein proper is not met with, as this lies nearer the inner side of the thigh.
In some instances the posteriorsaphena vein, instead of joining the popliteal vein, ascends superficially to terminate in some of the large veins of the thigh.
The two arteries are accompanied by venae comites, which, with the short saphena vein, form the popliteal vein.
The short (posterior) saphena nerve, formed by the union of branches from the peronaeal and posterior tibial nerves.
Therefore, open a vein in the arm, if she is not with child; the day after strike the saphena in both feet, fasten ligatures and cupping glasses to the arm, and rub the upper part.
The saphena vein can generally be recognised, and is almost always safe out of the way of this incision at its inner side.
I may say that after the third venesection, with an interval of two hours, I withdrew a half-pound of blood from the saphena vein, and that night she slept, although she had not slept for many nights.
Accordingly she was robust, and I bled her from the basilic vein of the left hand and the saphena of the right foot, both within an hour.
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