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Buerger’s Disease of the Lower Extremities

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Vascular Surgery

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Thromboangiitis obliterans (TAO).

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Vascular Surgery, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

    Fabrizio Benedetti-Valentini MD

  2. Department of Vascular Surgery Policlinico Umberto I°, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

    Regina Stumpo MD, Ombretta Martinelli MD & Bruno Gossetti MD

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Vascular Surgery Athens University Medical School, Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece

    Christos D. Liapis MD, FACS, FRCS

  2. Division of Vascular Surgery, Evangelisches Krankenhaus, Mülheim, Germany

    Klaus Balzer MD

  3. Department of Vascular Surgery, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

    Fabrizio Benedetti-Valentini MD

  4. Department of Vascular Surgery Hospital Santa Maria and Faculty of Medicine, Director Instituto Cardiovascular de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

    José Fernandes e Fernandes MD, PhD (Chief of Service) (Chief of Service)

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Benedetti-Valentini, F., Stumpo, R., Martinelli, O., Gossetti, B. (2007). Buerger’s Disease of the Lower Extremities. In: Liapis, C.D., Balzer, K., Benedetti-Valentini, F., Fernandes e Fernandes, J. (eds) Vascular Surgery. European Manual of Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30956-7_42

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