Application of Kunlin's technique in vascular micro-anastomosis: experimental and clinical study.
Vascular microanastomosis of vessels that presents marked discrepancy in size can be performed without difficulty by making a longitudinal incision of the end of the smallest vessel, forming a kind of "spatula," and joined to the vessel of greater diameter.
D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D001158:Arteries / Q000601:surgery*; D005263:Femoral Artery / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008866:Microsurgery / Q000379:methods*; D008875:Middle Aged; D051381:Rats