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KMID : 0311120030440010159
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Yonsei Medical Journal
2003 Volume.44 No. 1 p.159 ~ p.162
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Bilateral Popliteal Artery Aneurysms with Rupture and Pseudoaneurysm Formation on the Left
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Suat Canbaz/Suat Canbaz
Turan Ege/Hasan Sunar/Gogun Saygin/Enver Duran
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Abstract
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The rupture of a popliteal artery aneurysm is very rare, and can lead to serious complications if untreated. Any reports of a huge pseudoaneurysm, following rupture of the popliteal artery aneurysm could not be found in a review of the literature. A pulsatile huge mass leading to a deep venous thrombosis, was observed in a 74 years old male patient who for 2 months had had a progressively swollen and painful left leg. On angiographic evaluation, the mass was found to be a pseudoaneurysm originating from a ruptured true aneurysm of the popliteal artery. There was also a small true aneurysm in the contralateral extremity at the same localization. Both the false, and true aneurysms were resected surgically and arterial continuity was established with a synthetic polytetrafluoroethylene graft.
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KEYWORD
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Popliteal aneurysm, bilateral aneurysms, ruptured aneurysm, popliteal pseudoaneurysm,
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