0 a swollen and often painful vein, especially in the legs:
Three of the males and all five females had varicose vein repair, and the other eight males had a hernia repair.
The operations that are most frequently performed in day surgery are hernia and varicose vein repair.
They choose an eminent surgeon to do a varicose vein operation or a hernia operation.
Why can a patient requiring a varicose vein operation be dealt with so much more quickly—and just as successfully—in some areas than in others?
There have been 50,000 such operations in the past year, as well as 60,000 varicose vein operations, and 90,000 people have had cataract operations.
Her accusation is slightly at variance with her equally misleading suggestion that we are urging hospitals to do varicose vein operations instead of heart transplants.
Varicose vein operations are part of general surgery and not separately identified.
The equivalent of the varicose vein syndrome in the health service is the routine robbery.
