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Only patients with critical limb ischemia (CLI) should undergo angioplasty or stenting distal to the popliteal artery.
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Sapoval, M., Pellerin, O., Bellmann, L. (2010). Infrapopliteal Angioplasty and Stenting. In: Morgan, R., Walser, E. (eds) Handbook of Angioplasty and Stenting Procedures. Techniques in Interventional Radiology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-399-6_11
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