Objetivo: investigar a prevalência clínica-epidemiológica dos pacientes submetidos à cirurgia de varizes dos membros inferiores. Método: estudo prospectivo e transversal. Aplicou-se um questionário de qualidade de vida semiestruturado adaptado do Venous Insufficiency Epidemiological and Economic Study previamente à cirurgia e após 40 dias da cirurgia. Utilizou-se Teste de Qui-quadrado de Pearson para o valor esperado >5 e teste exato de Fisher para o valor
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