U. Ersoy et al., Hitherto undescribed venous vacuolar myopathy without mucoid degeneration in the varicose saphenous vein of a child, VASA, 30(1), 2001, pp. 67-70
Varicose vein abnormalities involving the lesser saphenous vein of a 7-year
-old boy are presented. The histopathology of the vein wall revealed a vacu
olar degeneration without mucoid deposits of the muscle cells, which has no
t been described previously in the literature in congenital varices.