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The bony venous thoracic outlet creates significant extrinsic force upon the subclavian vein, and intravascular stents in this location thus perform very poorly. There is some literature supporting the use of stents after decompression, but no level I evi
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Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
An old Hindi wise man told a story about six blind men meeting up with an elephant. Each blind man could feel only a part of the beast. One man felt a tusk and said that an elephant is similar to a spear. Another man touched a leg and said that an elephant is a big tree. Grabbing the trunk, one blind man claimed that the elephant is a big snake. With each blind man, the true nature of a whole elephant was misjudged because each one could only sense one part. The old Hindi wise man told us that truth is found by considering many different points of view. In composing this book, we recognize that clinicians may view Thoracic Outlet Syndrome from many different perspectives. From the very beginning of this project, we hoped to incorporate as many of these different perspectives as we can, because it is our conviction that knowledge will arise out of a process of consensus while we try to reconcile the differences. In so doing, we honor the old Hindi wise man and the elephant.
Karl A. Illig • Robert W. Thompson Julie Ann Freischlag • Dean M. Donahue Sheldon E. Jordan • Peter I. Edgelow Editors
Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
Editors Karl A. Illig Department of Surgery Division of Vascular Surgery University of South Florida Tampa, Florida USA Robert W. Thompson Department of Surgery Section of Vascular Surgery Washington University Center for Thoracic Outlet Syndrome Barnes-Jewish Hospital St. Louis, Missouri USA Julie Ann Freischlag Department of Surgery John Hopkins Medical Institutions Baltimore, Maryland USA
Dean M. Donahue Department of Thoracic Surgery Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, Massachusetts USA Sheldon E. Jordan Department of Neurology Neurological Associates of West LA Santa Monica California USA Peter I. Edgelow Graduate Program in Physical Therapy UCSF/SFSU Union City, California USA
ISBN 978-1-4471-4365-9 ISBN 978-1-4471-4366-6 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4471-4366-6 Springer London Heidelberg New York Dordrecht
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