Iliofemoropopliteal Arterial Reconstructions for Arteriosclerosis Obliterans

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Abstract
IT is more than eleven years since dos Santos1 reported his pioneer attempts at the reconstruction of arterial channels that had been closed by arteriosclerosis obliterans. He used a method of curettement called thrombendarterectomy, which removed the diseased central layers of the arterial segment, consisting of thrombus, degenerated intima and the part of the media, often varying in width at different levels, involved in the pathologic process.Venous autografts and arterial homografts had been known for some time to function in laboratory animals2 3 4 5 6 and in reconstructions of traumatic lesions7 , 8 and of aneurysms9 in man. Isolated examples of late results were . . .