Lumbar sympathectomy is often performed for ischaemia of the foot in patients in whom direct arterial surgery is not desir- able.In contrast to the muscle circulation, there is a high level of sympathetic vasoconstrictor tone of skin vessels in the foot, and their sympathetic denervation initially results in marked vaso- dilatation in both the experimental animal (L6fving and Mel- * This paper represents part of a thesis by one of us (R. S. W.)
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