Summary:Background: Finding the appropriate endovascular revascularization strategy for patients with peripheral artery disease and a popliteal artery lesion remains particulary challenging. Data regarding predictors for a beneficial outcome are scarce. ...
Summary.Background: Previous studies showed favorable results after treatment of femoropopliteal lesions with the Pulsar-18 self-expanding (SE) nitinol stent. The objective of this registry was to evaluate whether these results will be ...
Abstract. Although management paradigms for certain arterial trauma, such as aortic injuries, have moved towards an endovascular approach, the application of endovascular techniques for the treatment of peripheral ...
Background: Advances in stent technology have widened the field of indications for stent treatment of femoro-popliteal artery lesions, however the use of stents in bending arterial segments is restricted because some first- and second-generation nitinol ...
Due to its anatomical location the popliteal artery is exposed to injury during surgical procedures in the region of the knee joint, in particular during high-level corrective osteotomies of the proximal tibial epiphysis. Nevertheless, posttraumatic (...
Osteochondrome sind gutartigen Knochentumore und sind meistens im Bereich des Humerus und Femurs lokalisiert. Die überwiegende Mehrzahl dieser Tumoren sind asymptomatisch - in einigen Fällen können sie aber zu Komplikationen wie Frakturen, ...
Aneurysmata der A. poplitea können infolge von akuten Thrombosen oder Embolien die distale Extremität gefährden. Diese Kasuistik berichtet über einen 70-jährigen Patienten mit schwerer Claudicatio aufgrund eines thrombosierten Aneurysma der linken A. ...