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Operative Indication, Surgical Approach, and Tactics

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Aneurysms of the Popliteal Artery

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At the beginning of the second half of the last century, both the certainty about the need of surgical treatment for symptomatic/complicated PAAs and the quandary about what to do for asymptomatic ones entered the stage. Just to cite only some relevant reports:

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Cavallaro, A. (2021). Operative Indication, Surgical Approach, and Tactics. In: Cavallaro, A. (eds) Aneurysms of the Popliteal Artery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49687-6_13

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