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REPORT OF FIVE CASES

KAARE K. NYGAARD, M.D.; GEORGE E. BROWN, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1937;59(1):82-106.

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There are three well defined occlusive diseases of the arteries: thrombo-angiitis obliterans, thrombo-arteriosclerosis obliterans and occlusion due to embolism.¹ In our experience 95 per cent of the cases of occlusive disease of the arteries are accounted for by these three diseases. In the remaining 5 per cent are included a small number of unusual forms of obliterative arteritis, types which at present are of greater pathologic than clinical interest: aneurysm with thrombosis, cervical rib with thrombosis of the peripheral artery and an irregular form, present in a small number of cases, which for lack of a better term has been designated simple thrombosis.² It was recognized that the last-mentioned group of diseases probably represented a clinical entity, but until a sufficient number of cases were observed, the pathologic picture was studied and the course of the disease was followed over a period of years it would be impossible . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Fellow in Surgery, the Mayo Foundation; ROCHESTER, MINN.

Footnotes
Dr. Brown of the Division of Medicine, the Mayo Clinic, died on Nov. 28, 1935.

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