News from the TOS Council

TOS pathophysiology and clinical features.

The authors present 280 patients operated on for thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS). In a first group of patients anatomical variants were the striking findings. The underlying factor for TOS development is therefore a well defined structural condition and its pathogenetic mechanism is known to be a nerve fibre compression. In a second group there was no specific salient finding but a postural devi...

Publications From the Interventional Council.

The Interventional Council of the ACC was formed to represent the interventionalists who comprise the interventional section of over 5,000 members. This council intends to produce some statements that either clarify or integrate guidelines or address topics not well covered by guidelines. One of those is included in this issue of the journal. I have invited Dr. S. Tanveer Rab to explain the pro...

News from the Field

B O S T O N UNIVERSITY LIB R AR Y has been given a valuable collection of Lincoln letters, documents a n d related materials, number ing eighty-six items. Of special interest is an order to Genera l Winf ie ld Scott to susp e n d the writ of habeas corpus. T h e donor is the H o n o r a b l e Edward C. Stone, a member of the Massachusetts Senate a n d chairm a n of the Board of Trus tees of the...

News from the Archives

Why do so many scientific research articles languish in obscurity? There is no single answer. No doubt many have earned their ignominy by their flawed scholarship, poor exposition, or arcane subject matter, but this is not always the case. A search of the old literature often uncovers many seemingly worthy contributions that have inexplicably fallen into oblivion. Probably the most common reaso...

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