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VASCULAR COMPLICATIONS OF CERVICAL RIBS
Author(s) -
Harris James D.,
Jepson R. P.
Publication year - 1965
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1965.tb04373.x
Subject(s) - medicine , rib cage , thrombosis , subclavian artery , cervical rib , surgery , embolization , clavicle , radiology , fusiform aneurysm , aneurysm , anatomy
S ummary 1. Six cases of subclavian artery aneurysms associated with cervical ribs are reported. 2. The natural history of progression from a fusiform dilatation to a grossly abnormal vessel liable to massive or mural thrombosis with embolization is described. 3. For those cases with thrombosis and significant ischaemia, aneurysmal formation of great size or fragility, containing mural thrombosis with embolization, it is recommended that the segment should be resected and a graft inserted. 4. A method of graft insertion without resection of the clavicle is described.