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Abstract
- 1.1. Two hundred consecutive cases in which lumbar sympathectomies were performed have been analyzed.
- 2.2. All of seventy-eight patients who received the operation for vasospastic disorders were improved.
- 3.3. Eighty-two per cent of twenty-two victims of thromboangiitis obliterans were improved.
- 4.4. Seventy-six per cent of one hundred arteriosclerotics were improved.
- 5.5. Causes for unsatisfactory results in the remaining twenty-four arteriosclerotics were reviewed, and criteria have been suggested by which patients may be selected for sympathectomy.
- 6.6. Six cases of thrombosis of the terminal aorta and/or common iliac arteries (Leriche's syndrome) have been presented, with satisfactory results following sympathectomy in five.
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☆Read at the sixth annual meeting of the Society for Vascular Surgery, Chicago, Ill., June 8, 1952.
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© 1953 Published by Elsevier Inc.
