The popliteal vein is located at the posterior, or back, of the knee. It is responsible for the majority of the lower legs’ venous return. It is sometimes called the femoropopliteal vein.

The popliteal pulse is one of the pulses you can detect in your body, specifically in the portion of your leg behind your knee. The pulse here is from blood flow to the popliteal artery, a vital ...

The popliteal vein runs behind the knee and is one of several blood vessels that carry blood from the leg into the inferior vena cava — a large vein that carries blood from the lower body to the ...

to the femoral vein. Ultimately, all deoxygenated blood ends up at the lungs and the heart, before it is recirculated into the arterial system. The popliteal artery is palpable (i.e. detectable by ...

We refer to this as “popliteal vein compression syndrome”. Vascular researcher David Huber of the Illawarra Health Service in Australia has shown that in the supine position in a standard ...

His popliteal and pedal pulses are absent, and the foot is cool and mottled. Angiography reveals complete occlusion of the stent, with thrombosis extending distally into the popliteal and tibial ...

Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a blood clot that typically develops in the legs. A blood clot in the popliteal vein (a major ... the lower back that branch out into your legs.

Diagnosis for deep vein ... popliteal vein thrombosis. It is less accurate for calf or iliac vein thrombosis. In contrast venography, or a venogram, doctors inject a contrast dye through a ...

PAES can be further classified by anatomical type (I–VI, table 1). It may exist alone or in combination with popliteal vein and/or tibial nerve compression as part of popliteal entrapment syndrome.

Venography is performed by injecting radiographic material into a superficial vein ... If a clot is present in the popliteal or more proximal veins, venous emptying is delayed.