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Recommended concentrations of polidocanol for foam sclerotherapy [5, 8, 11, 19, 21, 23, 25–29, 31, 43–46, 51–53, 58, 60, 75, 79, 162–164]
| Indications | Polidocanol concentration (%) | |
|---|---|---|
| Spider veins | Up to 0.5 | |
| Reticular varices | Up to 1 | |
| Varicose tributary veins | Up to 2 | |
| GSV, SSV | <4 mm | 1 |
| ≥4 to ≤8 mm | 1–3 | |
| >8 mm | 3 | |
| Incompetent perforator veins | 1–3 | |
| Recurrent varicose veins | 1–3 | |
| Venous malformations | 1–3 | |
