Anatomic Exposures Handbook in Vascular Surgery 2026: Systematic Approach to Dissection Technique, Landmark Recognition, & Structure-Protection Strate

By Anthony S. Houle MD

Built for the surgeon who has to expose a vessel today that they may have approached only once before, this reference connects applied surgical anatomy and embryology - why a retroaortic renal vein forms, why an aberrant right subclavian artery persists - to the specific technical sequence that reaches each vessel safely. It moves from foundational exposure principles through every major surgical field: cervical and upper extremity, thoracic and thoracoabdominal, abdominal aortic and visceral, lower extremity, and venous and special-access work, closing with trauma, redo, and extra-anatomic technique.
At every exposure, a structured Danger Zone callout names the specific nerve or vessel at risk, the misidentification that has historically caused injury there, and the single confirming landmark before any clamp is placed - a four-minute review built for the night before an unfamiliar case.
What This Book Puts in Your Hands:
- Master the vertebral artery's three surgical segments - V1 origin, V2 transverse foramina, V3 suboccipital - an approach most surgeons perform only once or twice in a career, mapped step by step.
- Control the suprarenal and pararenal aorta - individual renal artery management, cold perfusion timing, and sequential clamping that limits combined ischemic burden.
- Execute thoracoabdominal repair - Crawford-based extent planning, circumferential diaphragm division that preserves phrenic innervation, and left medial visceral rotation.
- Reach the groin you can't use - axillofemoral, femorofemoral, and obturator bypass routes that carry inflow around an infected or hostile field.
- Move at trauma speed without losing technique - region-by-region rapid proximal control, resuscitative thoracotomy, and shunt-first sequencing for combined vascular-orthopedic injury.
- Explant an infected graft safely - fresh-tissue control principles applied to vascular surgery's highest-stakes reoperative field.
- Scan the Danger Zone Exposure Master Atlas - every structure at risk across every chapter, indexed by region and by name, for rapid preoperative recall.
Open it before the exposure you'll perform once - the same care you'd bring to the one you perform every week.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HFRZWSWZ
• ISBN13: 9798193633655
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.5" x 11.0"