This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on Web of Science (12)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

A Personal View

Arthur B. Voorhees, Jr, MD

Arch Surg. 1985;120(3):289-295.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

When your President, Dr Robert Smith, invited me to address you, he suggested as a topic the evolution of arterial grafting. As this is a subject of particular interest to me, I was delighted to accept and am honored to participate in these meetings.

I would like to begin by speculating on how man has dealt with arterial injury from the mists of antiquity to the present day, when, just this year, vascular surgery has been recognized as a formal specialty of general surgery. It seems relevant to put our present knowledge of prosthetic grafting into a historical perspective. There have been many significant contributors, and I will mention only a few who seem particularly important to me.

Before recorded history man must have had some perception of the relationship between injury and blood loss, with its subsequent threat to life. His weapons, against man and beast, were primarily designed . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Surgery, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Aug 27, 1984.

Presented as an invited lecture before the Eighth Annual Surgical Symposium of the Association of Veterans Administration Surgeons, Los Angeles, May 10, 1984.

Reprint requests to the Department of Surgery, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 630 W 168th St, New York, NY 10032 (Dr Voorhees).

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?