Video angioscopy as an alternative to intraoperative arteriography.

Improved technology has made available the technique of video angioscopy. When applied routinely, it can provide a high yield of important technical detail in a graphically precise and easily applicable manner, at the time of a great variety of vascular reconstructions, and complications are rare. Although not entirely replacing intraoperative arteriography, its multiple attractive characteristics make it substantially more useful in many circumstances. Familiarity with the technique will enable vascular surgeons to more rapidly utilize new methods of therapy, such as lasers, as well as improve already existing ones.