[Injuries to abdominal vessels after surgery of disk herniation].

Four cases of major vascular injury after disc surgery have been treated by the authors. In two instances the symptoms were those of an intra peritoneal haemorrhage after injury to the aorta or to the common iliac artery. These two cases were treated by resection-anastomosis of the vessel.

[Peroperative vascular accidents during orthopedic surgery. Apropos of 55 cases].

The functional or vital prognosis may be affected by the rare vascular accidents resulting from orthopedic operations. During a 10 year period (1970-1980), 55 vascular lesions were observed in 40 patients, and were either arterial (40 cases) or venous (15 cases) in type. Vascular injuries in 9 cases were due to spinal operations (cervical, lumbosacral or herniated disc arthrodesis), in 7 cases to shoulder operations (recurrent dislocation, excision of first rib), in 9 cases to hip surgery (prosthesis, plate and screws, fractured acetabulum), and in 15 cases to operations on the lower limbs (osteosynthesis of femur or tibia, meniscus operations, etc.

[Arterial injuries in civilian practice].

The authors report their experience of arterial trauma in civilian life in a series of 227 patients (average age 38.2 years) with 233 arterial lesions, treated between 1977 and 1981. Iatrogenic trauma is responsible for 45 p.