After varicose vein surgery, the most important concern of patients is definitely whether it will recur or not. In fact, the recurrence of varicose veins is different from the recurrence of other diseases (such as tumors). If the patient has had a traditional surgery or a transilluminated spinotomy, then the patient’s varicose vessels (usually the saphenous vein and its branches) have been removed, that is, they do not exist anymore, so it is only possible that new lesions have occurred in other vessels. If this is the case, since the main trunk of the vessel has been removed, varicose vessels are usually not very serious and can be left untreated if they do not affect the aesthetics; if they need to be treated, basically wearing elastic stockings or injecting sclerosing agents is sufficient; only individual parts of the vessels may require surgery, and the doctor will judge this according to the site of recurrence. If the diseased vessel is treated with laser and sclerotherapy, it may recur (please refer to “Treatment of varicose veins”), because the main vessel is not treated or recanalized, and then it is necessary to consider whether to do surgery or not. Thus, as long as the treatment is surgical (conventional or transilluminated spinotomy), the main vessels will not recur, but if new lesions occur in other parts, they can be treated again after the doctor’s evaluation.