Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Diagnosing a popliteal venous aneurysm in a primary care setting: A case report | Journal of Medical Case Reports BioMed Central Open Access Case report Diagnosing a popliteal venous aneurysm in a primary care setting A case report Emmanouil K Symvoulakis 1 Spyridon Klinis2 loannis Peteinarakis2 Dimitrios Kounalakis1 2 Nikos Antonakis1 2 Emmanouil Tsafantakis2 and Christos Lionis1 Address 1Clinic of Social and Family Medicine Department of Social Medicine Faculty of Medicine University of Crete Heraklion Crete Greece and 2Primary Health Centre of Anogia Rethymno Crete Greece Email Emmanouil K Symvoulakis - symvouman@ Spyridon Klinis - spklinis@ loannis Peteinarakis - johnpety@ Dimitrios Kounalakis - dcoun@ Nikos Antonakis - antonakisnikos@ Emmanouil Tsafantakis - etsafantakis@ Christos Lionis - lionis@ Corresponding author Published 22 September 2008 Received 23 August 2007 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2008 2 307 doi 1752-1947-2-307 Accepted 22 September 2008 This article is available from http content 2 1 307 2008 Symvoulakis et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract__ Introduction Popliteal venous aneurysms are uncommon but potentially fatal vascular disorders. They can be symptomatic or asymptomatic mimicking different conditions. Popliteal venous aneurysms are possible sources of embolism. Case presentation A 68-year-old woman presented at a rural primary health care unit in Crete Greece reporting local symptoms of discomfort in the right popliteal fossa with pain during palpation. Colour Doppler ultrasonography revealed local widening and saccular dilatation in the right distal popliteal vein. The .
