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Endovascular Treatment of Femoral-Popliteal Arterial Occlusive Disease
Historical Background Dotter and Judkins first described percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) using a rigid catheter in 1964. By March 1977 approximately 1800 patients with femoral-popliteal arterial occlusions and stenoses had been treated using this technique, as reported in an international…