TY - JOUR
AU - Rogers, Lambert
AB - VI COSTO-CLAVICULAR COMPRESSION AND THE UPPER THORACIC SYNDROME* LAMBERT ROGERS, V.R.D., F.R.C.S. By Professor of Surgery, University of Wales, Surgeon United Cardiff Hospitals, Consultant to Royal Navy to what in Contrary occurs the lower limb and vascular phenomena associated with a cervical rib consequent upon our upright posture, the neuro- are due to direct injury to the subclavian artery by vascular bundle as it leaves the upper thoracic the clavicle, and this was confirmed at operation by opening to enter the dependant upper is Wilfred Trotter. Eden in limb, reviewed the I939 If sharply angulated. because of this question and recorded further angulation, cases in which com- friction or the stretching of lower part of the pression of the subclavian artery between the rib plexus takes over the first rib or a place cervical and the clavicle was clearly rib, demonstrated. Murray a or the tendinous fibres of band, the scalenus Falconer and Weddell (1943) and others have since medius are muscle, symptoms produced which given details of similar cases. constitute the the syndrome of thoracic upper open- Cases in which the subclavian is artery inter- As the subclavian leaves the ing. artery upper mittently occluded by being squeezed 
TI - Costo-Clavicular Compression and the Upper Thoracic Syndrome1From the Surgical Unit, The Welsh National School of Medicine, The Royal Infirmary, Cardiff.
JO - Postgraduate Medical Journal
DO - 10.1136/pgmj.29.333.348
DA - 1953-07-01
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SP - 348
EP - 351
VL - 29
IS - 333
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