Set of plantar digital veins
Venae digitales plantares · Chodidlové prstové žíly
Veins
Looks like
Small veins on the underside of the toes.
What it does
Drain the toes, mostly into veins on the top of the foot.
Keeping it well
Rarely clinically important.
Related conditions
- Buerger's disease (thromboangiitis obliterans)
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Clotting disorders (thrombophilia & APS)
- Clubfoot (talipes equinovarus)
- Deep vein thrombosis
- Flat feet (pes planus)
- Ganglion cyst
- Gout
- Hammer toe and claw toe
- Lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis)
- Lymphoedema
- Morton's neuroma
- Restless legs syndrome
- Varicose veins
- Venomous snakebite