PMID: 3319236Aug 1, 1987Paper

Arterial aneurysms of the upper limbs (our experience and review of the literature)

Chirurgia italiana
A PerbelliniA Cerofolini

Abstract

The authors discuss about the very low incidence of the upper extremities aneurysms and about their post-traumatic etiology. They show their experience in 6 cases with a Follow up from 2 to 17 years. All the patients were operated on; in 2 cases the authors performed aneurysmectomy only and in 4 cases an axillo-brachial by-pass. The results are very good in every patient.

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