Some people's veins are hard to find due to factors like dehydration, stress, vein depth, or external conditions.

Stenoses within the transposed segment of the basilic vein required two fistulae to undergo operative vein patch angioplasty, and an additional 16 fistulae received PTV as primary therapy.

THE term "varicose veins" customarily suggests, immediately, and almost exclusively, abnormal dilatations and tortuosities of the saphenous veins of the lower extremity. If one then stops to reflec ...

The surgical procedure consisted of transecting the cephalic vein just before the diseased portion, then transposing and anastomosing the healthy vein to the upper basilic or axillary vein.

After assessment of the vein for patency and adequate size, the incision was extended up the medial side of the arm, completely exposing the basilic vein to its confluence with the axillary vein.