In what one prominent surgeon described as a presentation, investigators from the University of Wisconsin Clinical Science Center, Madison, have reported impressive success with a form of arteriography that may obviate much of the need for arterial catheterization in studying the peripheral vasculature. The method, called computerized intravenous arteriography, clearly visualized the intracranial and extracranial arterial tree, the aortic arch, the abdominal artery and its branches, and vessels of both upper and lower extremities, according to William D. Turnipseed, MD, and Andrew B. Crummy, MD. Turnipseed, an associate professor of surgery, and Crummy, a professor of radiology, described the approach to members of the Society for Vascular Surgery in Chicago (Figures). Their presentation earned the landmark praise from John Mannick, MD, chief of surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and professor of surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston. Turnipseed and Crummy stressed that this procedure is more than a research tool.
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