Brief History

Salem operation was first done in the private clinic of Dr Salem in Alexandria,Egypt.After disclosure of this invention and registration in washington patent office in April 30 1991 - No. 5,011,489.The operation After that was done in the alexandria main univesity hospital and most of the private hospitals in Alexandria, Egypt. Also a trial was done in some centers all over the world.

The first time the salem stripper was designed and became ready to do the operation in 1986 and 20 cases was done and followed for three years and presented in the international congress of the American College of Angiology which was held in san fransisco,california,USA in octobor 9 1989 and Dr. Salem Won Award for this Invention in this conference.At that time Dr. Salem was visiting Professor in vascular surgery department, University of South Florida.

After that Dr. salem returned back Home to Egypt and started his activities to do his operation in many hospitals including the university hospital.

Statistics

Number of cases From 1990 up to 2004 is nearly 1200 cases with no complications except superficial wound infection which represent about 0.5% with no haemorrhge, no hematoma &
no saphenous nerve injury.The recurrence rate was matched with the previous operations.

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