[Popliteal artery entrapment syndrome]

Minerva Med. 1986 Dec 15;77(47-48):2201-4.
[Article in Italian]

Abstract

Trapped popliteal artery syndrome is relatively uncommon: the literature reports some 60 cases. The clinical picture is linked to compression of the popliteal artery by the gastrocnemius as it contracts, thus distorting the arterial route. The result is an interruption in the blood flow distally to the area involved due to stenosis of the blood vessel that is at first functional but becomes organic.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Constriction, Pathologic / diagnosis
  • Constriction, Pathologic / etiology
  • Constriction, Pathologic / pathology
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Popliteal Artery*
  • Syndrome
  • Vascular Diseases / diagnosis*
  • Vascular Diseases / etiology
  • Vascular Diseases / pathology