Abdominal Angina

Abstract

IN MOST syndromes, so-called classic pictures develop as a result of the more severe manifestations of the disease. As knowledge increases, lesser forms are recognized. This is illustrated best in the literature of recent years by the more frequent recognition of milder, subacute and recurrent types of pancreatitis as against the more classic severe catastrophe. Similarly, in textbooks the subject of intra-abdominal vascular disease is usually confined to a discussion of massive mesenteric thrombosis or embolism, with extensive infarction of the intestine, and gangrene and death in a high percentage of cases. Again, only in recent years has there been . . .