[Non-atherosclerotic and non-inflammatory juvenile popliteal obstructive arteriopathy (personal observations on a...

On the ground of a personal observation of juvenile popliteal obstructive arteriopathy, the Authors have considered, after a brief revision of the literature, the physiopathology and the pathologic anatomy about this pathology which, even if uncommon, must by anyhow taken into consideration among the possible causes of "claudicatio intermittens" in young patients. A right diagnosis can be made only during the surgical intervention, the indications of which are represented either by a clinic objectiveness consistent with a peripheral obstruction with description of chronic or openly acute arterial failure, or by an angiographic checking which shows a stop along the femoropopliteal axis. The prognosis is generally good, as the literature confirms, and particularly in the case observed by the Authors it was quite satisfactory after a follow up of four years.