Popliteal venous aneurysm as a rare finding: Management and therapy presented in a case report

Aneurysms of the popliteal vein without symptoms are a rare clinical finding. Most patients presented with symptoms of thromboembolism. Because of this nobody knows the exact incidence rate of this occurrence. We describe the case a 49-year-old female who presented with popliteal fossa pain. A popliteal venous aneurysm was detected by ultrasound and has now been observed for 42 months without complications, therapy, and symptoms. Literature on the subject, mostly case reports, is rare and the treatments used differed greatly. Most proposalstry to treat asymptomatic patients suffering from saccular aneurysm with parietal thrombi and symptomatic patients are treated by medical or better surgical intervention. The remainder of asymptomatic patients can be kept under observation by means of color Doppler and duplex sonography.