Popliteal Artery Entrapment Syndrome: Anatomic or Functional Syndrome?

Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 8-12

  Baltopoulos, Panagiotis ^a   Filippou, Dimitrios K ^a,b   Sigala, Francheska ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Diagnosis and management; PAES syndrome; Popliteal artery entrapment syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTERY COMPRESSION; ARTERY MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVALESCENCE; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; LEG PAIN; MALE; MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY; POPLITEAL ARTERY ENTRAPMENT SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SYMPTOM; SYNDROME; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; ATHLETIC INJURIES; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; POPLITEAL ARTERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 0346095474     PISSN: 1050642X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00042752-200401000-00002     Document Type: Article

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