Abstract
Three groups of leg veins that are affected by different clinical conditions can be distinguished:
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Epifascial (superficial) veins
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Subfascial (deep) veins
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Transfascial (perforating) veins
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Schäberle, W. (2018). Extremity Veins. In: Ultrasonography in Vascular Diagnosis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64997-9_3
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