Open Repair of a Giant Popliteal Artery Aneurysm Presenting with Nerve Compression Symptoms

Masaya Nakashima; Masayoshi Kobayashi

doi:10.5758/vsi.200077

Open Repair of a Giant Popliteal Artery Aneurysm Presenting with Nerve Compression Symptoms

Vasc Specialist Int. 2021 Mar 31;37(1):37-40. doi: 10.5758/vsi.200077.

Authors

Masaya Nakashima¹, Masayoshi Kobayashi²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Vascular Surgery, Tokoname Municipal Hospital, Tokoname, Japan.
² Department of Cardiovascular surgery, Fujita Health University Graduate School of Medicine, Toyoake, Japan.

Abstract

Popliteal artery aneurysm (PAA) is a rare vascular disease, especially in women, and presents with various symptoms, ranging from being asymptomatic to rupture or acute life-threatening ischemia. We have presented a case of PAA in an 81-yearold woman complaining of tingling sensations in her leg. Computed tomography revealed a large 10-cm sized PAA. Because of the compression related symptoms, an open repair approach was selected and performed successfully via a posterior approach, including partial aneurysm resection and interposition graft with a reversed saphenous vein.

Keywords: Bypass surgery; Limb salvage; Neuralgia; Popliteal artery; Saccular aneurysm.

Publication types

Case Reports