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The Obturator Foramen Bypass

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A 62-year-old man presented with a 2-week history of continuous pain in the left lower abdomen radiating to the groin. For several weeks, he had complained of general malaise, including tiredness and poor appetite, and diarrhoea once to twice per day. His general practitioner palpated a pulsating, tender mass in the left groin and referred him to the department of vascular surgery at the nearby university hospital. Three years previously, he had been operated upon with a Dacron aortobifemoral bypass for critical ischaemia and intermittent claudica­tion in the left and right lower limbs, respectively.

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Charing Cross Hospital and Ealing Hospital, London, UK

    George Geroulakos MD, FRCS, DIC, PhD (Consultant Vascular Surgeon and Senior Lecturer) (Consultant Vascular Surgeon and Senior Lecturer)

  2. University Hospital Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Hero van Urk MD, PhD, FRCS (Professor of Vascular Surgery) (Professor of Vascular Surgery)

  3. Division of Vascular Surgery, UMDNJ-NJMS, Newark, New Jersey, USA

    Robert W. Hobson II MD (Professor of Surgery and Physiology, Director) (Professor of Surgery and Physiology, Director)

  4. Section of Vascular Surgery, Pennsylvania Vascular Associates, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    Keith D. Calligaro MD (Chief) (Chief)

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Kroese, A.J., Staxrud, L.E. (2003). The Obturator Foramen Bypass. In: Geroulakos, G., van Urk, H., Hobson, R.W., Calligaro, K.D. (eds) Vascular Surgery. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3870-9_25

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