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P (Patients) I (Intervention) C (Comparator) O (Outcomes) Patients with cervicothoracic vascular injury Endovascular repair Open repair Technical success, durability Table 33.2 Summary of literature review Study Patients (#) Follow-up…

Fig. 23.1 Superior mesenteric artery and the aorta form an acute aorto-mesenteric angle (a). In superior mesenteric artery syndrome, the angle is markedly narrowed resulting in compression of the third…

P (patients) I (intervention) C (comparator) O (outcomes) Patients at high risk for surgery or with limited life expectancy EVAR Medical management Mortality Morbidity Quality of life Results The following…

Fig. 28.1 Standard carotid endarterectomy (Adapted from Zarins and Gewertz [3]. With permission from Elsevier) The sCEA technique is ubiquitous, being utilized in the majority of the more than 100,000…

P (patients) I (intervention) C (comparator group) O (outcomes measured) Patients with blunt traumatic aortic injury TEVAR Open operation and medical management Survival Classification of Blunt Traumatic Aortic Injuries There…

Ascending and descending Ascending Descending Stanford type A Stanford type A Stanford type B DeBakey type I DeBakey type II Debakey type III The Stanford system is categorized as type…

Fig. 17.1 Cross-section of calf illustrating the four compartments. Open arrows show sites of double-incision fasciotomy, closed arrow shows site of single-incision fasciotomy (This article was published in Current Surgical…

Fig. 18.1 Stages of embryological development of the lower limb arterial system (Adapted from McMurrich’s [23]) PES is classified into six types based on the embryologic origin with type VI…