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HAROLD LAUFMAN, MD; PAUL F. NORA, MD; ALLEN I. MITTELPUNKT, MD

AMA Arch Surg. 1964;88(6):1021-1044.

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The literature of mesenteric vascular occlusion was extensive even before the turn of the century. Shortly after Tiedemann²⁸¹ reported the first clinical case of superior mesenteric artery occlusion in 1843, Virchow²⁸⁷ and Litten¹⁸⁶ independently reported additional cases. By 1875, there were already two collective reviews in the literature, those of Litten¹⁸⁶ and Faber.¹⁰² By 1895, 50 reported cases were collected by Elliot,⁹⁷ who analyzed the diagnostic and therapeutic information previously delineated by Gerhardt¹²⁰ in 1863 and Kussmaul¹⁶⁴ in 1864.

Admirable experimental work, too, was done before 1900. Experimental occlusions of the mesenteric vessels were brilliantly studied by a long list of investigators whose names today are meaningful only to the scholar.*

By 1904, Jackson et al¹⁴⁸ were able to summarize the subject in an authoritative manner, and added 26 cases to the existing literature. A more extensive compilation appeared a decade . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CHICAGO

From the Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Medical School.

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Submitted for publication Jan 20, 1964.

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