title: [Popliteal aneurysms].
abstract: We presented the review of 22 cases of popliteal aneurysms with a follow-time of three years. One case was a woman and 5 cases were bilaterals. The most part of cases begun as a latter acute ischemia. Sixteen cases were treated surgically, with a null rate of mortality, 2 amputations, 4 cases of residual intermittent claudication and 10 no-symptomatic patients, with present distal pulses. Etiology, clinical presentation, diagnosis, technics and results are presented and a comparison with other authors is made. Our experience support an interventionist attitude in cases of elderly nonsymptomatic patients, performed by internal way and saphenous vein substitution.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Angiología y Cirugía Vascular, Complejo Hospitalario de León, España.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Vaquero Morillo
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zorita Calvo
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fernández-Samos Gutiérrez
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: García Vázquez
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Ortega Martín
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fernández Morán
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000671:Amputation, Surgical; D000783:Aneurysm / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011150:Popliteal Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D011859:Radiography; D012501:Saphenous Vein / Q000637:transplantation
vernacular_title: Aneurismas poplíteos.