Published in:
01-06-2005
Popliteal Vascular Entrapment
Authors:
Luca di Marzo, M.D., Antonin Cavallaro, M.D.
Published in:
World Journal of Surgery
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Special Issue 1/2005
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Excerpt
Popliteal Arterial Entrapment (PAE) was first reported in 1879 by Stuart, a medical student at the University of Edinburgh. Mr. Stuart observed, during the dissection of an amputated leg of a 64-year-old man, a popliteal artery coursing around the medial head of the gastrocnemius muscle and aneurysmal changes in the popliteal artery distal to the point of external muscular compression [
1]. …