Difficulties in the diagnosis of popliteal vein aneurysm.

Acta Chir Belg

Department of thoraco-vascular surgery, St. Vincentiusziekenhuis, Antwerp, Belgium.

Published: November 1996

Venous aneurysms are rare and seldom give rise to specific symptoms. We describe a case of a popliteal vein aneurysm in a 55-year-old patient in whom the lesion was at first misinterpreted as being a Baker's cyst. The lesion was successfully treated by segmental resection and venous interposition grafting.

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