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The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (대한심장혈관흉부외과학회)
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Traumatic Popliteal Artery Pseudoaneurysm Developed during a Soccer Game

  • Lee, Seock-Yeol (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Soonchunhyang University Cheonan Hospital) ;
  • Lee, Seung-Jin (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Soonchunhyang University Cheonan Hospital) ;
  • Lee, Chol-Sae (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Soonchunhyang University Cheonan Hospital)
  • Received : 2011.03.16
  • Accepted : 2011.06.01
  • Published : 2011.08.05
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Abstract

A 38-year-old male was admitted to our hospital due to painful swelling of his right popliteal fossa. He had been kicked in his right popliteal fossa during a soccer game about three weeks earlier. Computerized tomographic angiography of the lower extremity demonstrated a 4-cm-wide, 3-cm-long aneurysmal change of the popliteal artery. He underwent aneurysmectomy and graft interposition using a great saphenous vein graft. Pathologic findings of the resected specimen were consistent with those of a pseudoaneurysm.

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