[Surgical tactics in the case of injuries to small-diameter arteries]

The paper describes the experience in the treatment of 30 patients with injured 35 arteries of distal portions of the forearm and shin. The artery diameter at this level is no more than 3 mm requiring the microvascular surgery technique. The blood flow along the injured vessel was repaired in 22 patients on 25 arteries, with good near and late results in 20 of the patients. In half of the patients subjected to ligation of the artery phenomena of functional arterial insufficiency were developed.