[Operative access routes in reconstructive vascular surgery of arteries: Part 2: upper and lower extremities].

Exact anatomical knowledge of the arterial vascular system is the basis for all access routes. This article describes the most important assess routes of the upper and lower extremities in arterial vascular surgery. The access routes presented do not claim to be complete because this would overstretch the limits of this article and the reader is referred to the references listed.