[Chronic venous insufficiency--a mini-invasive therapeutic approach].

The authors describe their own experience assembled with treatment of chronic venous insufficiency. During the period from VII/95 to III/98 they operated 257 patients with diseases of the venous system. In 22 patients (8%) they operated 24 times by miniinvasive procedures. Eight times retroperitoneoscopic lumbar sympathectomy and sixteen times endoscopic subfascial dissection of the perforators was performed. The remaining patients (92%) were treated by classical operations of the superficial venous system.