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Adult Mouse Venous Hypertension Model: Common Carotid Artery to External Jugular Vein Anastomosis.
Published on: January 27, 2015
End-to-side venous anastomoses....a patency test
A N Pandya1, N Vaingankar, I Grant
1Department of Plastic Surgery, Royal Hospital Haslar, Hampshire, Gosport PO12 2AA, UK. ankur.pandya@virgin.net
Abstract:
A hitherto unpublished means of testing the patency across an end-to-side venous anastomosis is described. It relies on the elasticity of the venous walls to produce ballooning when the appropriate segments of the veins are occluded and blood is flowing unimpeded across the end-to-side anastomosis. It is foolproof, easy to perform and has no ambiguity in its interpretation.
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