Although the first crude arteriorrhaphy was performed more than 250 years ago, it is only within the past 50 years that vascular surgery has been practiced both widely and consistently with anticipation of good results. Historically, it is of particular…
Primary and secondary tumors of the vena cava are rare and often malignant. They either originate in the vein wall, invade the walls secondarily, or grow within the vena cava as tumor thrombus. They can cause extrinsic compression of the…
Historical Background Surgical approaches to the aortic arch vessels had been described in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In 1958 DeBakey and associates described the first successful surgical reconstruction of an occluded symptomatic innominate artery using an nylon…