Twenty years experience with abdominal aneurysmectomy. Surgical considerations and analysis of late results.

This report is concerned with presentation of overall experience with abdominal aneurysmectomy, carried out upon 500 consecutive cases during the last 20 years. Emphasis is placed upon substantially improved results of the last decade in terms of survival and late mortality thus, leading to an increased spectrum of operative indications together with justified surgical aggression in the overall management of abdominal aneurysm. Elective surgery was applied upon 385 cases whereas in the remaining 115, emergency undertaking was necessary.