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Popliteal artery aneurysms: Role of primary care physicians

Popliteal artery aneurysms are the common peripheral artery aneurysm. Aneurysm due to exostosis is rare in occurrence. Here, we present a rare presentation of popliteal artery aneurysm in siblings which was managed by aneurysm excision and revascularization with interposition reversed long saphenous...

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Autores principales: Balachandran, Saravanan, Murugesan, Rajkumar, Jayachander, K., Muthukkaruppiah, Suganya
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5084590/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27843870
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2249-4863.192371
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author Balachandran, Saravanan
Murugesan, Rajkumar
Jayachander, K.
Muthukkaruppiah, Suganya
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description Popliteal artery aneurysms are the common peripheral artery aneurysm. Aneurysm due to exostosis is rare in occurrence. Here, we present a rare presentation of popliteal artery aneurysm in siblings which was managed by aneurysm excision and revascularization with interposition reversed long saphenous vein graft in one child and follow-up in the other.
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spelling pubmed-50845902016-11-14 Popliteal artery aneurysms: Role of primary care physicians Balachandran, Saravanan Murugesan, Rajkumar Jayachander, K. Muthukkaruppiah, Suganya J Family Med Prim Care Case Report Popliteal artery aneurysms are the common peripheral artery aneurysm. Aneurysm due to exostosis is rare in occurrence. Here, we present a rare presentation of popliteal artery aneurysm in siblings which was managed by aneurysm excision and revascularization with interposition reversed long saphenous vein graft in one child and follow-up in the other. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC5084590/ /pubmed/27843870 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2249-4863.192371 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Balachandran, Saravanan
Murugesan, Rajkumar
Jayachander, K.
Muthukkaruppiah, Suganya
Popliteal artery aneurysms: Role of primary care physicians
title Popliteal artery aneurysms: Role of primary care physicians
title_full Popliteal artery aneurysms: Role of primary care physicians
title_fullStr Popliteal artery aneurysms: Role of primary care physicians
title_full_unstemmed Popliteal artery aneurysms: Role of primary care physicians
title_short Popliteal artery aneurysms: Role of primary care physicians
title_sort popliteal artery aneurysms: role of primary care physicians
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5084590/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27843870
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2249-4863.192371
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