**3. False traumatic aneurysms (FTA)**

The management of FTA of arteries has a long history. One of the earliest texts known, the Ebers Papyrus (2000 BC), contains a description of FTA of the peripheral arteries [1]. During the second century AD; Antyllus treated FTA by applying a ligature above and below the lesion, incising the aneurysmal sac, and extracting the clot. In 1873 Pick provided an interesting and detailed account on his management of an FTA of a large femoral artery by digital compression, which had an unsatisfactory final result [1]. The first reported FTA repair was by Matas in 1888. He

operated on a young male patient with a large FTA of the brachial artery that had developed after multiple gunshots [2]. After ligation of the main proximal and distal arteries, he opened the aneurysm sac and sutured all collaterals with back-bleeding. Fifteen years later, Matas described this procedure as a reconstructive endoaneurysmorrhaphy [3]. Vojislav Soubbotich, a Serbian surgeon treated 60 FTA and 17 traumatic arteriovenosum fistulas (TAVF) during the Balkan wars between 1912 and 1913. He performed some of the reconstructive procedures in 32 cases [4]. Rich published an interesting article titled, ''Matas Soubottich Connection.'' He said that Soubbotich's technique and results had been outrun 40 years later, during the Korean conflict [5].
