ABSTRACT
Introduction 194 Anatomy 194 Physiology 196
Clinical syndromes 198 References 213 Further reading 217
This chapter examines aspects of peripheral vascular disease from a surgical viewpoint. There is generally little practical difference in everyday clinical practice between women and men in the surgical treatment of arterial disease, but where such differences exist they are commented upon. No attempt is made to be comprehensive in the space available. The emphasis is clinical, combining important but often forgotten aspects of patient presentation with background information and data from recent advances. For detailed discussion, the reader is referred to Rutherford’s Vascular Surgery, from where some of the references in the current chapter were sourced.
