[Spontaneous regression of a sub-adventitial cyst of the popliteal artery]

J Mal Vasc. 1995;20(4):323-5.
[Article in French]

Abstract

We report a case of spontaneous regression of a cystic adventicial disease of a popliteal artery in a 37 years old man. The peroperative resection of the adventicia give us the histologic confirmation of the diagnostic. The cyst's content may have gone through either in the peri-arterial space or through a communication with the articulation of the knee. For us, it seems to confirm the embryologic theory for the pathogenic of this disease.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Popliteal Cyst / diagnostic imaging
  • Popliteal Cyst / physiopathology*
  • Remission, Spontaneous
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed