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- 1.Ninety-one cases of arterial injury are reviewed.
- 2.Good results are shown to attend early restoration of arterial flow.
- 3.Early diagnosis or exploration is essential and the time between injury and repair is decisive.
- 4.Diagnosis is nearly always possible on clinical signs; assume injury is present till proven absent.
- 5.Persistent ‘arterial spasm’ is an indication to explore the lumen of the artery, when most cases will be found to have an organic obstruction of the vessel.
- 6.Perform the simplest repair possible but for more extensive defects, autogenous saphenous vein grafts are entirely satisfactory.
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