[Plea for better terminology in surgery of the profunda femoris artery (author's transl)].

Surgical publications on the profunda femoris artery rarely give information on the site of the operation and the technic used. Experience of 356 operations carried out from 1949 to 1978 by the authors and anatomical dissection of 100 profunda femoris arteries is reported. They suggest the elimination of all imprecise terms at present attached to these operations and their replacement by a more lengthy but more understandable vocabulary, together with an attempt to classify the profunda femoris artery in two groups and its nomenclature in 4 segments, more adaptable to surgery of this artery.