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GENERAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE DISEASE

MAURICE E. BARRON, M.D.; HARRY LINENTHAL, M.D.

Arch Surg. 1929;19(4):735-751.

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Von Winiwarter,¹ in 1878, described a case in which the arteries of a lower extremity were occluded by a chronic proliferative process arising from the intima and showed an inflammatory reaction of the walls of the vessels. He called this lesion "endarteritis obliterans."

Since then many writers have described this disease, but it was not until the studies of Buerger² in 1908 that the pathologic changes were minutely described and the disease established as a definite clinical and pathologic entity. From the time of the first description by von Winiwarter¹ to the present, there has been a tremendous amount of study and investigation of this lesion.

It is the object in this paper to direct attention to the more general distribution of the disease in contradistiction to what has previously been believed concerning it—that it is a disease involving the blood vessels of the extremities exclusively. It . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BOSTON

From the Surgical and Medical Departments, Beth Israel Hospital.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, March 29, 1929.

Read at a symposium on thrombo-angiitis obliterans at the annual meeting of the Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons, Boston, Oct. 12, 1928.

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