[Importance of deep and surface lymphography in the diagnosis and treatment of postthrombotic venous insufficiency of the lower extremities].

The authors describe the results of radiopaque investigations of the venous and lymphatic systems of lower extremities in 85 patients with postthrombotic venous insufficiency. Considerable morphological and functional lesions of lymphatic vessels are developing in this disease. Changes in the deep lymphatic collector are considered to be the leading ones. The character of these changes corresponds to the clinical stage of the disease. Operation for the creation of lympho-venous anastomoses is one of the methods of surgical correction of the lymph outflow.