H. Urayama et al., RECONSTRUCTION OF JUGULAR AND PORTAL BLOOD FLOWS USING REMODELED GREAT SAPHENOUS-VEIN GRAFTS, SURGERY TODAY-THE JAPANESE JOURNAL OF SURGERY, 23(10), 1993, pp. 936-938
Remodeled great saphenous vein grafts were used to reconstruct both ju
gular and portal veins. The great saphenous vein was split longitudina
lly and sutured side-to-side to construct a vessel twice the diameter
and one half the length of the original vessel. This graft was used wi
th good results for reconstruction of the jugular veins in a patient a
fter a bilateral neck dissection for tongue cancer and for a portal ve
in in a patient after resection for cancer in the head of the pancreas
.