Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska

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3/2026 vol. 23
Letter to the Editor

Surgical management of common femoral artery aneurysm thrombosis

Spyros Papadoulas 1
,
Francesk Mulita 2
,
Konstantinos M. Nikolakopoulos 1
,
Chrysanthi Papageorgopoulou 1
,
Zafeiria Papathanassiou 3
,
Ioannis Panagiotopoulos 4
,
Artemisia Papadima 4, 5
,
Michail Peroulis 6
,
Dimitrios Schizas 7
,
Vasileios Leivaditis 8

  1. Department of Vascular Surgery, General University Hospital of Patras, Patras Medical School, Patras, Greece

  2. Second Department of Surgery, University Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece

  3. Department of Radiology, General University Hospital of Patras, Greece

  4. Department of Cardiac Surgery, Ippokrateio General Hospital of Athens, Greece

  5. Department of Anesthesiology, Ippokrateio General Hospital of Athens, Greece

  6. Department of Surgery, Vascular Surgery Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ioannina, Greece

  7. First Department of Surgery, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Laikon General Hospital, Athens, Greece

  8. Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Westpfalz Klinikum, Kaiserslautern, Germany

Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska 2026; 23 (3): 298-302

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/kitp.2026.165177
Data publikacji online: 2026/10/12
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