Karl A. Illig • Robert W. Thompson
Julie Ann Freischlag • Dean M. Donahue
Sheldon E. Jordan • Peter I. Edgelow
Editors
2013
After a century of contributions to the Medical Literature, new ideas about neurovascular compression syndromes had apparently run aground. By the 1970s there was little of consequence in the contemporary literature, no ongoing investigative efforts, and except for a colorful monograph by artist Frank Netter, virtually no Medical School teaching of the subject. It was all too obvious that clinical understanding of “Thoracic Outlet Syndrome” was inadequate to meet the rising number of patients with these unique disorders.