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Volume 14, Issue 5 , Pages 51-53 , November 2007

Popliteal Artery Entrapment Syndrome: 3 Unusual Features in the Same Patient

C. Bron
- Department of Vascular Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and University of Lausanne, Switzerland
- Correponding author. C. Bron, Department of Vascular Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and University of Lausanne, CH-1011 Lausanne, Switzerland.
C. Haller
- Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Vaudois and University of Lausanne,Switzerland
L. Calanca
- Department of Vascular Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and University of Lausanne, Switzerland
S.D. Qanadli
- Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Centre Hospitalier, Universitaire Vaudois and University of Lausanne, Switzerland
I. Milesi-Haesler
- Specialist in Vascular Medicine, Morges, Switzerland
E. Haesler
- Department of Vascular Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and University of Lausanne, Switzerland

,Accepted 6 September 2007.

Echographic image of the popliteal fossa showing the aberrant insertion of the medial head of the gastrocnemius muscle (M) with popliteal artery (A) running medially to it. Popliteal vein (V).

Echographic image of the popliteal fossa showing the aberrant insertion of the medial head of the gastrocnemius muscle (M) with popliteal artery (A) running medially to it. Popliteal vein (V).
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Perioperatively view of the popliteal fossa showing the situation before section of the medial head of the gastrocnemius muscle (a) and after the release of the artery completed by section of the musc

Perioperatively view of the popliteal fossa showing the situation before section of the medial head of the gastrocnemius muscle (a) and after the release of the artery completed by section of the muscle (b).
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