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The first systematic approach to the study of the development of lower limb arteries in the human embryo is probably represented by the work published in 1902 by De Vriese [1]. However, it is generally recognized, without any significant variation through years and decades, that a reliable outline of what does happen in the human embryo as a premise to the adult arterial system in the lower limb was described by Senior [2] in 1919, being the result of a detailed and certainly painstaking research performed at New York University.
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Cavallaro, A. (2021). The Popliteal Artery: Embryology. In: Cavallaro, A. (eds) Aneurysms of the Popliteal Artery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49687-6_3
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