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Original communication| Volume 72, ISSUE 5, P789-792, November 1972

Popliteal artery entrapment by fibrous band

  • Henry Haimovici
    Affiliations
    From the Vascular Service, Surgical Department, and the Department of Radiology, Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center New York, N. Y., USA

    From the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, N. Y., USA
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  • Seymour Sprayregen
    Affiliations
    From the Vascular Service, Surgical Department, and the Department of Radiology, Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center New York, N. Y., USA

    From the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, N. Y., USA
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  • Fletcher Johnson
    Affiliations
    From the Vascular Service, Surgical Department, and the Department of Radiology, Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center New York, N. Y., USA

    From the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, N. Y., USA
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DOI:https://doi.org/10.5555/uri:pii:0039606072902644
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      Abstract

      A case of popliteal artery entrapment by a fibrous band is reported in a 17-year-old girl. Diagnosis of an entrapment syndrome was suspected clinically, supported by the arteriogram, and confirmed by the operative findings. In contrast to most previously reported cases of popliteal entrapment, the vessel in this case was in its normal relation to the medial head of the gastrocnemius and was patent. Division of the band alone was sufficient to relieve all the ischemic manifestations.
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      Publication history

      Accepted: May 25, 1972

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      DOI: https://doi.org/10.5555/uri:pii:0039606072902644

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      © 1972 Published by Elsevier Inc.

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