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Operative treatment is the therapy of choice in malignant melanoma under curative as well as palliative considerations. Today more conservative surgical strategies are preferred, however. Thus, the safety margins for the excision of the primary tumor have been significantly reduced. With the introduction of the minimally invasive sentinel node biopsy the elective lymph node dissection, a high morbidity intervention, has become obsolete. Sentinel node biopsy should be performed in all melanomas thicker than 0.75 mm, as the percentage of lymph nodes harvesting micrometastases increases in correspondence to the clinical tumor stage up to 75%.
INTRODUCTION: Leg ulcers following varicose veins and incompetent perforators have been treated by supplementary surgery of the perforators, originally by open operation, from the early eighties by endoscopic techniques. METHODS: The endoscopic operation is carried out through a short incision of the skin and fascia well above the skin changes, and consists of subfascial electro-cauterization and cutting of the incompetent perforators. RESULTS: 100 consecutive procedures were performed 1995-1999. Totally, the frequency of complications was 28%, mostly minor and self-limiting: Haematoma/haemorrhage 6%, infection 9%, deep vein thrombosis 1%, sural and saphenous nerve affection 9% and others 3%. With a median follow-up of 10 months, 94% of the patients were satisfied with the treatment, 5% experienced unchanged symptoms, 1% became worse. In 30 ulcer-cases, 80% were without recurrency after a median follow-up of 16 months, the rest having recurrent, but smaller ulcers. CONCLUSION: The present results are similar to the experience reported by others. It is suggested that the technique may be developed in centers for advanced varicose vein surgery.