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Vanquish your varicose veins

In the past, veins were primarily treated using a surgical procedure known as ligation and stripping. Ligation is a surgical procedure to cut off blood flow to the faulty vein. Stripping, or vein removal, followed. "People came out of the procedure with a swollen leg and lots of bruising," says Dr. Scovell. The procedure is far less common today. Dr. Scovell says... Instead, she and many other doctors have switched to less invasive office procedures that leave little to no scarring. "Even the most anxious patients tolerate these procedures very well," she says.

One of the oldest and most popular of these office procedures is called thermal ablation, says Dr. Scovell. It uses laser beams…

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