Venous Clinical Severity Score and anatomical success
saphenous trunk, reflux
REFLUXING, REFLUX
The mean VCSS of patients in the SAP group was higher after 12 months than that in the TAP group: 1.86 (95 per cent c.i. 1.55 to 2.18) and 1.22 (1.01 to 1.43) respectively (Anatomical success, according to duplex ultrasonography after 9–12 monthsSAP, isolated ambulatory phlebectomy with or without delayed endovenous truncal ablation; TAP, thermal ablation with concomitant phlebectomy. At 12 months’ follow-up, the anatomical treatment success rate at the level of the GSV or AASV was higher in the TAP group: 177 patients (88.9 per cent) had a total obliteration, 13 (6.5 per cent) had an open trunk without reflux, in 7 patients (3.5 per cent) the trunk was completely recanalized with reflux, and in 2 patients (1.0 per cent) it was partially recanalized with reflux. In the SAP group, anatomical treatment success at the level of the saphenous trunk was achieved in 115 patients (57.8 per cent) (48 patients (24.1 per cent) had a totally obliterated or invisible saphenous trunk, and 67 (33.7 per cent) had a completely open trunk without reflux); 84 patients (42.2 per cent) still had a refluxing trunk (Anatomical outcomesValues are 