We describe popliteal arterial adventitial cystic disease which causes intermittent claudication in a young athletic man, with atypical manifestation, without loss of foot pulses on knee flexion nor murmur in the popliteal fossa. The findings obtained from Magnetic Resonance Imaging were non-diagnostic. The diagnosis resulted from Echo-Doppler ultrasonography along with peak exercise testing. U...

BACKGROUND Tibial mononeuropathy due to compression by a synovial cyst is uncommon with fewer than 10 cases reported in the literature. METHOD Case Study. RESULTS Tibial motor mononeuropathy with focal conduction block between the popliteal fossa and ankle was identified by electrophysiological testing. Magnetic resonance imaging and surgical exploration identified a synovial cyst compressi...

Gus M Garmel, MD, fAcEP, fAAEM, is a Senior Emergency Medicine Physician at the Santa Clara Medical Center. He is also the Co-Program Director of the Stanford/Kaiser Emergency Medicine Residency Program, and an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine (Surgery) at Stanford University. E-mail: [email protected]. Figure 3. Compression ultrasound demonstrates a patent popliteal artery (A) in both...

Popliteal artery entrapment syndrome is a rare but potentially limb threatening peripheral vascular disease occurring predominantly in young adults. We report a case of a 17-year-old boy who presented with intermittent claudication on the right side. Digital subtraction angiography revealed bilateral, focal narrowing of the popliteal arteries. Magnetic resonance imaging displayed compression of...

Pulmonary embolism is a common clinical condition associated with high mortality.The majority of pulmonary emboli originate from deep venous thrombosis in the popliteal and femoral veins.We present a rare case of a 21-year-old caucasian male patient with massive pulmonary embolism. The source of emboli originated from thrombosed femoropopliteal pseudoaneurysm associated with arteriovenous fistu...

1 are to be congratulated for performing a well-designed multicenter, prospective, ran-domized, controlled trial comparing primary stenting with provisional stenting for moderate-length (≈42 mm) popliteal artery stenoses in primarily claudicators (79%) with one third having total occlusions. 1 The Endovascular Treatment of Atherosclerotic Popliteal Artery Lesions–Balloon Angioplasty Versus Prim...

Results Color Doppler ultrasound revealed bilateral popliteal arterial aneurysm of 2-2.5 cm. Computed tomographic angiography showed a fusiform aneurysmal dilation of the abdominal aorta with a largest diameter of 38 mm. Left superficial femoral artery was totally occluded and the graft was patent. There was a high-grade stenosis at the site of proximal anastomosis. Both popliteal arteries show...

The authors report two cases of neurilemoma localised in the popliteal fossa. Both patients experienced non-specific symptoms, such as painful numbness and burning dysaesthesia, involving the lower extremity. Tinel's sign was positive over the popliteal fossa. The patients sought medical advice and underwent conservative treatment without any relief, for a long time before the right diagnosis w...

Surgical repair of popliteal artery aneurysm in morbid obese patients poses additional challenges. We report a morbid obese patient who had a 59 mm right popliteal artery aneurysm which was successfully treated with the endograft connector technique. This technique was used to perform the distal anastomosis of the below-knee femoro-popliteal bypass. A 10 mm Dacron graft was used as a main graft...