title: Evolution of an operation.
abstract: The story of the origin of Matas' endoaneurysmorrhaphy with suggestions for maintaining or restoring arterial continuity and their gradual evolution into the technique of intrasaccular interpolation of grafts in managing aneurysms provides another example of the increased utility of an operative procedure by its modification and expansion.
mesh_terms: D000783:Aneurysm / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods