Symptomatic Gastrocnemius Vein Aneurysm

Gastrocnemius venous aneurysms are rare and thought to be caused by trauma or inflammation. Only three prior cases of gastrocnemius venous aneurysms have been reported in the literature. A 57-year-old female presented with severe right lower extremity calf pain. She was found to have a gastrocnemius...

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Autores principales: Krause, Kayla, Wylie, Loughlin, Ali, Tarik
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
Materias:
Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10120607/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37090380
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.36518
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description Gastrocnemius venous aneurysms are rare and thought to be caused by trauma or inflammation. Only three prior cases of gastrocnemius venous aneurysms have been reported in the literature. A 57-year-old female presented with severe right lower extremity calf pain. She was found to have a gastrocnemius vein aneurysm which was surgically resected. Two months after resection, the patient has no residual symptoms and was able to return to her activities of daily living.
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spelling pubmed-101206072023-04-22 Symptomatic Gastrocnemius Vein Aneurysm Krause, Kayla Wylie, Loughlin Ali, Tarik Cureus Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery Gastrocnemius venous aneurysms are rare and thought to be caused by trauma or inflammation. Only three prior cases of gastrocnemius venous aneurysms have been reported in the literature. A 57-year-old female presented with severe right lower extremity calf pain. She was found to have a gastrocnemius vein aneurysm which was surgically resected. Two months after resection, the patient has no residual symptoms and was able to return to her activities of daily living. Cureus 2023-03-22 /pmc/articles/PMC10120607/ /pubmed/37090380 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.36518 Text en Copyright © 2023, Krause et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_full Symptomatic Gastrocnemius Vein Aneurysm
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title_short Symptomatic Gastrocnemius Vein Aneurysm
title_sort symptomatic gastrocnemius vein aneurysm
topic Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10120607/
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