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Vascular Surgery
Arteries and veins outside the heart: aneurysms repaired from within by stent graft or from without by sew, carotid disease and the strokes it threatens, and the ischaemic limb, where the six Ps and the clock decide everything.
Surgical anatomy
Anatomy
The structures the operations walk past, and the ones they must not injure.
The structures the operations walk past, and the ones they must not injure. Real plates and photographs only; the 3D lab carries the BodyParts3D specimens.
Anatomy media needed
No verified anatomical plates are assigned to this specialty’s operations yet. The 3D lab and the danger-zone atlas below still apply.
Danger zones
What must not be injured
Carotid endarterectomy
Hypoglossal nerve
High plaques force the dissection up to and past it, and it hides behind a veil of small veins that bleed at the worst moment.
Protect it: Identify it before extending the exposure upward, sling it gently if it must move, and control the overlying veins deliberately rather than reactively.
Hub shaped by the Surgical Specialties Lead with the Vascular surgery reviewer (open seat). Images and videos carry their source; educational use for supervised learning, not clinical guidance.