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Popliteal artery entrapment is recognized as a rare but not exceptional causative factor of popliteal aneurysm. This complication is typical of the late stages of the disease, when occlusion or aneurysm affects more of 70% of the patients.

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    Personal experience has been gained at the Dept. of Surgery “P. Valdoni,” University “La Sapienza,” Rome, and consists of 40 patients (62 limbs) treated from 1979 through 2009.

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Cavallaro, A. (2021). Popliteal Artery Entrapment. In: Cavallaro, A. (eds) Aneurysms of the Popliteal Artery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49687-6_6

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