Revascularization of the isolated popliteal segment

Raithel, D.

Langenbecks Archiv für Chirurgie. Suppl Ii Verhandlungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Chirurgie. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chirurgie. Kongress 1989: 603-605

1989


ISSN/ISBN: 0173-0541
PMID: 2577603
Document Number: 337797
An alternative to crural reconstruction of obliterations of the popliteal vascular axis and an angiographically ascertained isolated popliteal segment is a bypass to the isolated popliteal segment. A patency rate of 82.7% was found 1 year after bypass; after 3 years the patency totaled 76%, and after 4 years the cumulative patency rate amounted to 59%. A comparison of these results with those of crural reconstruction (a patency rate of no more than 60% after 3 years) proved the superiority of the bypass.

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