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by DE Strandness Jr, 285 pp, with illus, $17.50, Boston, Little Brown & Co, 1969.

David I. Abramson, MD, Reviewer
University of Illinois Chicago

JAMA. 1970;211(4):664.

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The author attempts to evaluate alterations in arterial circulation in the extremities, due to organic or functional disorders, by qualitative physiologic procedures, using primarily the mercury strain-gauge plethysmograph. He considers such an approach a means of obtaining pertinent information regarding the efficacy of surgical vascular therapies, information not available through the conventional types of study of the peripheral arterial tree. The diseases discussed in this manner are arteriosclerosis obliterans, thromboangiitis obliterans, arterial thrombosis, arterial embolism, arteriovenous fistula, Raynaud's disease, and Raynaud's phenomenon. Together with the physiologic approach, the clinical aspects of these disorders are also presented. Case reports are utilized to emphasize the important points that arise in differential diagnosis.

Because of the author's interest in surgical procedures, a considerable portion of the sections on therapy naturally falls into this category. In fact, five of the 15 chapters are devoted entirely to such subjects as the selection of patients for . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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