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Congenital Vascular Malformations: An Historical Account

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Mild as well as severe vascular anomalies have been described in ancient documents by authors such as Hippocrates [1], Ambrose Pare [2], Galen [3], and others.

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  1. The Norman M. Rich Department of Surgery, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD, USA

    J. Leonel Villavicencio MD, FACS (Distinguished Professor of Surgery)

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  1. Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

    Young-Wook Kim

  2. Professor of Surgery and Director, Center for the Lymphedema and Vascular Malformations, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA

    Byung-Boong Lee

  3. Swedish Medical Center, Vascular malformation Center, Englewood, Colorado, USA

    Wayne F. Yakes

  4. Department of Radiology, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

    Young-Soo Do

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Villavicencio, J.L. (2017). Congenital Vascular Malformations: An Historical Account. In: Kim, YW., Lee, BB., Yakes, W., Do, YS. (eds) Congenital Vascular Malformations. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46709-1_1

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