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Peripheral Arterial Aneurysms

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More than 90% of all peripheral arterial aneurysms affect the popliteal and common femoral arteries and much more rarely the subclavian and brachial arteries. In a large proportion of these patients there are coexisting aneurysms of other locations as well, particularly in the infrarenal abdominal aorta.1

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Alemany, J., Görtz, H., Schaarschmidt, K. (2000). Peripheral Arterial Aneurysms. In: Chang, J.B. (eds) Textbook of Angiology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1190-7_48

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