BACKGROUND: @entity3657 is the most common peripheral @entity438 . Clinical pictures, perioperative diagnostic evaluations, surgical treatment and results are described. METHODS: From January 1982 to September 1998, 65 popliteal @entity439 in 48 @entity1 were treated in the Department of Vascular Surgery of Busto Arsizio Hospital. The series comprises 44 @entity1 (91.7%) and 4 @entity1 (8.3%) with mean age 65 years (range 44 to 87 years). At the time of surgery, 38 of the 65 @entity439 (58%) were treated because symptomatic: 31 (82%) for limb @entity63 (17 for acute @entity63 , 14 for chronic @entity63 ), 6 (16%) for compression on the adjacent popliteal vein and 1 (2%) for @entity397 . Forty-seven (72.3%) @entity439 were treated electively: 27 cases were asymptomatic and 20 others had chronic @entity63 or compression on the popliteal vein. The operations performed are listed as follows: 1 primary limb amputation for irreversible @entity63 , 1 lumbar sympathicectomy and 62 leg limb revascularizations with graft interposition (vein or synthetic prosthesis). The @entity1 with @entity1756 underwent leg amputation. RESULTS: Mean follow-up is 6.5 years (ranging from 2 months to 10 years) and revealed important differences between symptomatic versus asymptomatic @entity1 in limb salvage and graft patency: inferential analysis of amputation incidence is significant for p < 0.01 (Fisher exact test). CONCLUSIONS: We think that surgery is the best treatment also for small popliteal @entity439 , because of their frequent complications.

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@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['women', 'patients', 'patient', 'men'] @entity3657 :: ('MESH:D058729', 'Disease') :: ['Peripheral artery aneurysm'] @entity63 :: ('MESH:D007511', 'Disease') :: ['leg ischemia', 'ischemia'] @entity1756 :: ('MESH:D017542', 'Disease') :: ['aneurysmal rupture'] @entity439 :: ('MESH:D000783', 'Disease') :: ['aneurysms'] @entity397 :: ('MESH:D012421', 'Disease') :: ['rupture'] @entity438 :: ('MESH:D002532', 'Disease') :: ['arterial aneurysm']
@entity439 :: (MESH:D000783,Disease) :: ['Popliteal aneurysms']
