[X-ray semeiotics of changes in the soft tissues and bones of the lower extremities in disorders of the venous outflow]. / Rentgenosemiotika izmenenii miagkikh tkanei i skeleta nizhnikh konechnostei pri narushenii venoznogo ottoka.

In order to improve radiodiagnosis of chronic and venous insufficiency of the lower limbs, the soft tissues and skeleton of the affected limbs were x-rayed in 120 patients with disturbed venous outflow (60 with varicosity and 60 with the post-thrombophlebitic syndrome - PTPS). The limb soft tissue changes in this disease were shown to be of one type and looked like the thickening of subcutaneous fat; obscure boundaries of the muscles with subcutaneous fat, the narrowing of intermuscular layers, the absence of differentiation of separate muscular groups, visible varices, calcifications of soft tissues and phleboliths. Bone changes appeared later than the clinical signs of disease and were as follows: regional and diffuse osteoporosis, various kinds of periostoses (scaled or partially assimilated linear, multilayer and pectiniform) and hyperostosis. Longitudinal platypodia and transverse foot flattening caused by dysfunction of the musculoligamentous apparatus and increasing venous congestion in the lower limbs were seen in most of the patients.

[Changes in the lymphatic system of the lower limbs in varices and post-thrombophlebitic syndrome]. / Izmeneniia limfaticheskoi sistemy nizhnikh konechnostei pri varikoznoi bolezni i posttromboflebiticheskom sindrome.

The complex study of the venous and lymphatic system in 151 patient with different forms of the impairement in venous outflow was carried out. The direct dependence of the state of the lymphatic system of the lower extremities on the state of hemodynamics was noted.