Synonym(s)
pudendal varicose vein; Pudendal varicosis; Pudenda Varices; Pudenda varicosis
DefinitionThis section has been translated automatically.
Special form of varicosis located medially of the adductor canals. This varicosis usually does not drain into the V. saphena-magna and V. femoralis system, but mostly via the Foramen obturatorium and the pudendal veins into the small pelvis to the Plexus ovaricus and from there via the V. ovarica to the V. cava inferior (see also venous diseases).
Clinical featuresThis section has been translated automatically.
It is not uncommon for localised clinical pictures to be without suffering. In pronounced clinical pictures, connections to V. saphena magna and V. parva are possible, even under the clinical picture of incomplete trunk varicosis. Occasionally, women also suffer from "pelvic congestion syndrome", with pronounced dilatation of the plexus ovaricus and an insufficient V. ovarica (analogous picture to varicocele in men).
LiteratureThis section has been translated automatically.
- Hartmann K et al (2006) Recurrent varicose veins: sonography-based re-examination of 210 patients 14 years after ligation and saphenous vein stripping. Vasa 35:21-26.
- Jeanneret C et al (2016) Pelvic congestion syndrome and left renal compression syndrome - clinical features and therapeutic approaches. Vasa 45:275-82.
- Moser T et al (2006) Pudendal nerve compression by pelvic varices: successful treatment with transcatheter ovarian vein embolization. J Neurosurg Neurosurg Psychiatry 77:88.
- Rabe E et al. (1999) Pudendal varicosis - a rarely diagnosed entity. Phlebology 11: 194-196
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Prof. Dr. med. Peter Altmeyer