Treatment of Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms by the Pack Method of Intrasaccular Wiring

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Abstract
ANEURYSM of the thoracic aorta is a disease of great antiquity. It was described as early as the sixth century by Aëtius.1 Ambroïse Paré, the great sixteenth-century French surgeon, was the first to suggest the relation of aneurysm and syphilis, according to Butler.1 During the nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth, aneurysms were reputed to occur more frequently in this location than elsewhere in the body. In 1847 Crisp,2 in a series of 530 cases, found 175 of the thoracic aorta compared to 59 of the abdominal aorta. Klotz,3 in 1926, reviewing 1000 cases, reported 610 and . . .