Meanings
- uncountableA disease of the skin and connective tissue: chronic panniculitis with lipomembranous changes.
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It requires treatment in patients with various complications such as thrombophlebitis, bleeding from superficial varicose veins, or signs of more advanced forms of chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) such as edema and skin changes including lipodermatosclerosis, eczema, pigmentation, atrophie blanche, and healed or active ulceration.
2014 December 31, Jin Hyun Joh et al., “Consensus for the Treatment of Varicose Vein with Radiofrequency Ablation”, in Vascular Specialist International, volume 30, →DOI
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