[Selection of the approach to the surgical treatment of diseases of the abdominal aorta].
The article discusses results of using in clinic different operative accesses in surgical treatment of occlusive-stenotic injuries and aneurysms of the abdominal aorta in 224 patients. Full medial laparotomy was used in 22 patients, extraperitoneal access--in 27 patients, extraperitoneal C. Rob access--in 122 patients, extended +thoraco-phreno-lumbotonic access--in 5 patients, the developed extraperitoneal access--in 48 patients. The advantages of the proposed method as compared with the pararectal method and C. Rob's one were experimentally confirmed. Choice of the operative access depending on the kind and spread of the pathological alterations in the abdominal aorta and the presence of complications were shown to be expedient.