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Journal of Foot and Ankle Research

Wednesday Jun 03, 2009

Bilateral giant femoropopliteal artery aneurysms

Bilateral giant femoropopliteal artery aneurysms: a case report

Theodossios P Perdikides, Efthimios Avgerinos, Efstratios Christianakis, Theofanis Fotis, Anastasios Chronopoulos, Konstantinos X Siafakas, Nikolaos Pashalidis and Dimitrios K Filippou

Popliteal artery aneurysms are the most common peripheral arterial aneurysms, and are frequently bilateral. Acute limb ischemia, rupture and compression phenomena can complicate these aneurysms when the diameter exceeds 2 cm.We report an 82-year-old male patient with two giant femoropopliteal aneurysms, 10.5 and 8.5 cm diameters, managed in our institution. Both aneurysms were resected and a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) femoropopliteal interposition graft was placed successfully. Management and literature review are discussed. We believe this is the first report in the medical literature of bilateral giant femoropopliteal aneurysms.

 

 

 

   

 


 


 

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