Reconstructive Vascular Surgery

Abstract

THE three years since the last Medical Progress report on this subject¹ have seen a continuing avalanche of clinical reports tending to confirm the hypothesis that restoration of normal functional anatomy can be accomplished in any obstructed or diseased major vessel. Hopefully, this period is seeing the end of reconstructive vascular surgery's youth, in which the successful accomplishment of a technical procedure of itself, without regard to the eventual fate of the patient, justified publication. In this sense, vascular surgery has been about where cancer surgery was half a century ago.The great body of reconstructive vascular surgery is directed . . .