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Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 1932;14:57-64.
© 1932 by The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc

TREATMENT OF VASCULAR DISEASES OF THE EXTREMITIES BY SYMPATHECTOMY

D. E. ROBERTSON M.D.1

1 Hospital for Sick Children and Department of Surgery, University of Toronto

1. In Raynaud's disease sympathectomy will relieve the symptoms of the disease and prevent the formation of gangrene.

2. All cases of vascular diseases of the extremities have associated vasospasm in a varying degree. This latter can be relieved by sympathectomy.

3. Sympathectomy leaves no important deleterious effects either in the lumbar or cervicothoraci excisions.

4. Lumbar sympathectomies improve the bowel action.


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