The treatment of the complications of varix has already been considered.
Extensive Varix of Internal Saphena System on Left Leg, of many years' standing.
Varix is most frequently met with between puberty and the age of thirty, and the sexes appear to suffer about equally.
We are here concerned with varixas it occurs in the veins of the lower extremity.
Cramp-like pains in the muscles are often associated with varix of the deep veins.
It is a common experience in women that the signs of varix date from an antecedent pregnancy.
They are ill-developed or absent also in the iliac and common femoral veins--a fact which has an important bearing on the production of varix in the veins of the lower extremity.
When the varix is of long standing, the skin in the lower part of the leg sometimes assumes a mahogany-brown or bluish hue, as a result of the deposit of blood pigment in the tissues, and this is frequently a precursor of ulceration.
In the majority of cases it is only when some exciting factor comes into operation that the clinical phenomena associated with varix appear.
The larger the varix the greater is the tendency for a thrombus to spread upwards and to involve the deep veins.
The term Cirsocele is applied to varix of the spermatic veins.
Lumbar abscess and varix of the femoral vein are also supposed to resemble it in some measure.
Columella plaited, swelled into a varix at the anterior.
In these, the canal, if such it may be called, is extremely short, and turning abruptly backwards, produces a kind of varix at the lower part of the whorl.
Ancillaria may be known from Terebellum by the tumid varix at the base of the columella.
In order to distinguish a regular varix from a mere external ridge, it will be sufficient to notice whether its edge overlaps the external surface, and whether it resembles the open edge of the aperture, which true varices do.
A varix is formed on the outer surface of a spiral shell, by the thickened, reflected edge of a former aperture, after fresh deposits of testaceous matter have increased the size by adding to the growth of the shell beyond it.
The peculiarly flat appearance is due to the fact that there is a rather wide varixupon each side of the shell.
The shell is marked by three well-raised varices upon each whorl, which are reflexed backward; between each varix is a rounded knob.
Even this operation, however, in two cases of femoral varix failed to effect more than a temporary cessation of the symptoms, although the ligatures were placed but a short distance from the communication.
Although readily felt in the posterior triangle, it was impalpable on deep pressure in the suprasternal notch, a fact which seemed in favour of localising the aneurismal varix to the subclavian artery and vein.
An aneurismal varix of the calf vessels developed, also incomplete peroneal paralysis.
In none of the cases of varix was the period of observation long enough to allow me to determine the development of dilatation of the arterial trunk above the point of obstruction.
In a case of aneurismal varix of the femoral artery of three years' standing, which was under the charge of Mr. Mackellar, the pulse rate was normal.
A varix developed, but was only discovered by accident ten years later.
In the former a varixstill exists, and at the end of seven months the pulse is still over 100.
The latter process may be continuous, and eventually the sac may become small and stationary or ultimately disappear and a pure varix be the result.
The shells have three or more varices upon each whorl; those in Ranella but two; while Struthiolaria has a varix only on the right-margin.
Second section of Canalifera: shells with a varixon the right-margin.
The columella has a varixat the base, which distinguishes it from Terebellum, and it wants the canal which separates the volutions of Oliva.
Locally, in varix of the leg, order a flannel bandage to support the vein and drive the blood into the deeper vessels which have muscular support.
The treatment of varix may be palliative or curative, but whichever is followed, endeavor first to remove the cause.
Varix in the leg is met with during and after pregnancy, and in persons who stand upon their feet for long periods.
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