VARICOSE-VEINS COMBINED WITH MUCOID DEGENERATION OF THE VENOUS WALL

We report on a 56-year-old woman with bilateral chronic venous insuffi ciency, a cavernous hemangioma at the right thigh and an aneurysm of t he left femoral vein, without bone or soft tissue hypertrophy. Histopa thology revealed a mucoid degeneration of the media musculature of the venous wall. Such a finding has not yet been described in the world l iterature. The differential diagnosis must consider a secondary hither to unknown alteration of varicose veins, a variety of a vascular malfo rmation not yet described, and a primary degeneration of the smooth mu scles of the vascular wall followed by the development of varicose vei ns.