title: [Thrombendarterectomy of the femoro--popliteal region for chronic occlusion (author's transl)].
abstract: 218 patients who underwent subintimal dissection were followed up over a period of 21/2 years. The results (72,6% patients at the end of 21/2 years) come up to those of the saphenous vein bypass. the rate of secondary amputations (7.21%) is low, the primary mortality rate comes up to 2.75%. In our opinion thrombendarterectomy has satisfactory late results. In the author's opinion chronic arterial occlusion of the femoro-popliteal region should surgically be treated first of all by thrombendarterectomy. This enables the surgeon to perform an autogenous venous bypass procedure in case of relapse.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000671:Amputation, Surgical; D004691:Endarterectomy / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005263:Femoral Artery / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011150:Popliteal Artery / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000601:surgery; D012008:Recurrence; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000601:surgery*
vernacular_title: Was kann die Thrombendarteriektomie bei der operativen Behandlung der chronischen arteriellen Verschlusskrankheit des femoro-poplitealen gefässabschnittes leisten?