[Surgical treatment of thoracic and thoraco-abdominal aneurysms involving the Adamkiewicz's artery. Usefulness of deep hypothermia (author's transl)].

The authors present a new surgical technique for the treatment of thoracic and thoraco-abdominal aneurysms involving the artery of the lumbar enlargement (Adamkiewicz's artery) at its point of origin. In two patients the aortic segment giving birth to the artery was accurately located by angiography and re-impaired under deep hypothermia and extracorporeal circulation.