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End-to-side anastomosis of small vessels using an Nd:YAG laser with a hemispherical contact probe. Technical note
C A Tulleken1, A van Dieren, R M Verdaasdonk
1Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Journal of Neurosurgery
|March 1, 1992
Abstract:
A new technique is described which enables the surgeon to perform an end-to-side anastomosis between arteries with little (less than 2 minutes) or no occlusion of the recipient artery. The technique was developed in rabbits, but has recently been successfully used in a patient in whom an anastomosis between the superficial temporal artery and a proximal branch of the middle cerebral artery was created.