SYMPATHECTOMY IN PERIPHERAL ARTERIOSCLEROSIS

Lumbar sympathectomy for peripheral arteriosclerosis.

Senile peripheral arteriosclerosis clinical aspects and management.

Spontaneous Arteriosclerosis in Rabbits

Thoracolumbar sympathectomy in hypertension.

The average survival time of patients in the malignant phase of hypertension is short-eight months according to Keith et al. (1928). There have been many reports of the effects of bilateral thoracolumbar sympathectomy on the mortality rate in. this disease. Woods and Peet (1941) recorded a survival rate of 33 per cent five years after operation and Peet and Isberg (1946) a rate of 19 per cent a...

Arteriosclerosis in Parkinsonism.

Some textbooks on general and neurological medicine give the impression that cerebral arteriosclerosis is an important cause of Parkinsonism (e.g., Alpers, 1945; Yater, 1949; Purves-Stewart and Worster-Drought, 1952; Wilson, 1955; Cecil and Loeb, 1959; Grinker, Bucy, and Sahs, 1959; Merritt, 1959; Baker, 1962; Brain, 1962). Whether or not this is so, it is often very difficult to distinguish cl...