RSM logo
JRSM

Home Current issue Browse archive Alerts About the journal Feedback
 
J R Soc Med 1985;78:440-444
© 1985 Royal Society of Medicine

This Article
Right arrow Send a Quick Comment
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me when Quick Comments are posted
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow reprints & permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Downing, R.
Right arrow Articles by Slaney, G.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati  
What's this?

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Vol 78, Issue 6 440-444, Copyright © 1985 by Royal Society of Medicine

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Problems in diagnosis of popliteal aneurysms

R Downing, RP Grimley, F Ashton and G Slaney

Clinical features and errors in diagnosis have been assessed in a retrospective study of 62 popliteal aneurysms in 40 patients, 22 of whom had bilateral aneurysms. Only 29% of patients complained of pain or swelling behind the knee, while 31% of aneurysms had produced distal ischaemia presenting as intermittent claudication, 9 aneurysms had thrombosed producing ischaemic rest pain in 6 legs, and 4 aneurysms had ruptured. Although 94% of aneurysms were suspected or confidently diagnosed by palpation alone, only 43% of patients had had the correct diagnosis made at the time of initial referral. Treatment was delayed in 12 patients, 8 of whom subsequently required amputation. Popliteal aneurysm should be suspected in patients with a prominent popliteal pulse who present with intermittent claudication, and in patients with acute ischaemia of the leg who may have a thrombosed aneurysm requiring surgical exploration.
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 RadioGraphicsHome page
J. N. Useche, A. M. F. de Castro, G. E Galvis, R. A. Mantilla, and A. Ariza
Use of US in the Evaluation of Patients with Symptoms of Deep Venous Thrombosis of the Lower Extremities1
RadioGraphics, October 1, 2008; 28(6): 1785 - 1797.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 VASC ENDOVASCULAR SURGHome page
A. Mingoli, C. Farina, R. J. Feldhaus, and R. D. Schultz
Popliteal Aneurysm Presenting as Thrombophlebitis of the Lower Extremity: A Case Report
Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, November 1, 1991; 25(9): 732 - 737.
[Abstract] [PDF]



  RSM Press eJournals Collection 2010