The symptoms include pain, swelling, and inflammation in the leg and knee area. Popliteal vein thrombosis can occur due to poor blood flow, damage to a blood vessel, or an external injury.

DVT, whether it’s in the popliteal vein or elsewhere in the leg, has some of the same symptoms as a Baker’s cyst. That can make it hard for your doctor to know which one you have, especially ...

The popliteal artery is palpable (i.e. detectable by hand). People are able to find it and use it to count a pulse in the back of the knee. If the knees are slightly flexed — to about 45 degrees ...

• The most important cause of DVT is the occlusion, or blockage, of the main popliteal vein behind the knee. This occurs in something like 30 per cent of people when the knee is extended.

Deep-Vein Thrombosis (DVT) Symptoms Not all DVTs cause noticeable symptoms, but the most common are swelling and redness in the affected leg, often associated with some pain in the same area.

Thrombolysis versus Thrombectomy in Acute Deep Vein Thrombosis Gerard J O'Sullivan Disclosures Interv Cardiol. 2011;3 (5):589-596. 0 ...

Figure 3. Longitudinal popliteal vein 10 min after exposure demonstrating residual rouleaux. Two months after the initial study was performed, the subject returned to the ultrasound department and was ...

Core Messages If no triggering event can be identified for a patient with deep vein thrombosis, an unknown cancer should be considered as a cause. Rosemary Poulose and L. Christian Napp, MD, et al ...

Popliteal artery entrapment syndrome (PAES) is an anomaly resulting in symptomatic extrinsic compression of the popliteal artery by the surrounding musculotendinous structures; most frequently the ...