The Surgical Treatment of Occlusive Peripheral Arterial Disease

Results of Combined Surgical Therapy in Management of Peripheral Arterial Disease

“…This is particularly true in the application of lumbar sympathectomy, which is the most commonly performed procedure for this disease. Ziffren,1 in 1957, reviewed the literature and noted wide variation in the results of lumbar sympathectomy. It is the opinion of Smithwick 2 that this discrepancy in the results of sympathectomy is largely due to lack of satisfactory methods of patient selection.…”