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- Title
Is It Really Mandatory to Harvest the Contralateral Saphenous Vein for Use in Repair of Traumatic Injuries?
- Authors
Reddy, Neil P.; Rowe, Vincent L.
- Abstract
Since the transition time in surgical technique of vascular repair to current civilian practice, the great saphenous vein (GSV) remains unarguably the preferred conduit for surgical reconstruction in the lower extremity. With qualities such as accessibility, expendability, and long-term durability, it is easy to understand the enthusiasm with using the GSV in arterial or venous vascular injuries. However, the question does arise whether these detailed benefits of the GSV warrant harvest from an uninjured limb for vascular reconstruction on an injured limb. For those ardent followers of surgical dogma, harvest of contralateral vein from the uninjured lower extremity traumatic vascular repair is mandated. Unfortunately, this principle is not supported by high-quality data and remains folklore at best.
- Subjects
EXTREMITIES (Anatomy) -- Surgery; INJURIES of the anatomical extremities; LEG surgery; SAPHENOUS vein; VASCULAR surgery; PLASTIC surgery; WOUNDS &; injuries; SURGERY
- Publication
Vascular & Endovascular Surgery, 2018, Vol 52, Issue 7, p548
- ISSN
1538-5744
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1538574418781124