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Since the last Medical Progress report on peripheral-arterial surgery was published in 1969, the literature in this field has been expanding at an increasing pace. In addition to articles in periodicals,1 several textbooks2 3 4 5 have appeared, as have a number of monographs6 summarizing reports from various symposiums. Outlines of the overall picture of vascular surgery were sketched out long ago; the details are now being drawn in. New entities are being described, the natural history of vascular diseases is being elucidated, and long-term follow-up data are revealing the durability of vascular operations. Remote complications of vascular procedures are being observed, and . . .
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