Ronald A. Malt

Surgeons are great travelers, because no matter how well another surgeon lectures about his methods and no matter how frankly he reveals his secrets and errors, nothing beats a trip to his operating room to see the reality. But since time and money are limiting, no one sees everything he would...

To make a rational decision concerning operation for an abdominal aortic aneurysm, one must have a reasonable idea of the patient's prognosis both with and without surgical intervention. The fact that patients with clinically detectable abdominal aortic aneurysms have a poor prognosis was brought...