Vein obliteration - or vein sclerotherapy - is a method of treating varicose veins that is several hundred years old. The first attempts to close varicose veins by injecting an active substance were made as early as the 17th century. Since then, various medications have been developed and tried out to achieve permanent closure of varicose veins - with varying degrees of success. [...]

Targeted treatment of spider veins is therefore often advisable from both a medical and cosmetic perspective. Spider veins are the finest, dilated veins with a maximum diameter of 1 mm, which run superficially and are locally limited in the skin. Medically speaking, they belong to varicose veins and are therefore a condition, even if they are only a cosmetic annoyance to most of us. They

Removing varicose veins in the course of time Until the end of the last century, every varicose vein in the truncal vein had to be removed using the classic stripping operation - i.e. the surgical removal of varicose veins - via an incision in the groin, but today the gentle, so-called endovenous procedures are the treatment method of choice. The term „endovenous“ means that