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A technical aid for the difficult embolectomy

I D Samson, R H Samson

Archives of Surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960)

|June 1, 1983

Abstract:

Occasionally an embolectomy cannot be performed because of failure of the catheter to pass beyond the embolus. We employ a technique that overcomes this problem when it is due to a holdup of the catheter in a branch orifice or atheromatous recess.

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