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Endovascular surgery: an overview.

L T Hall
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Endovascular surgery, a new discipline for the treatment of vascular disease, is still in its infancy. Techniques consist of procedures that open total obstructions or partial stenosis of the vascular system and are for the most part in clinical trials. Balloon angioplasty, angioscopy, mechanical atherectomy and laser angioplasty are the major techniques in endovascular surgery. This article describes procedures, the techniques and complications.

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L T Hall. Endovascular surgery: an overview.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2199963/

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