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Case Reports: Rare disease
Cystic adventitial disease masquerading as ganglion disease: a rare cause of intermittent claudication
  1. Alyssa Claire Calderwood1,
  2. Ranesh Palan2 and
  3. Stefan Ponosh3
  1. 1Fiona Stanley Hospital, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia
  2. 2Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia
  3. 3Hollywood Private Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia
  1. Correspondence to Dr Ranesh Palan; ranesh.palan{at}health.wa.gov.au

Abstract

Cystic adventitial disease (CAD) is a rare cause of claudication in which a mucinous cyst forms within the adventitial layer of a blood vessel, most commonly the popliteal artery, resulting in luminal narrowing. This paper presents a case of a man in his mid-50s with unilateral lower limb popliteal artery CAD, which was not initially identified on either duplex ultrasonography or CT angiography. He was successfully treated with surgical resection of the affected segment of the popliteal artery and autologous vein grafting.

  • Vascular surgery
  • Connective tissue disease

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2022-251707

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    Footnotes

    • Contributors SP was the patient’s consultant surgeon and edited the manuscript. ACC and RP prepared the manuscript. RP was the unit surgical registrar and edited the manuscript.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Case reports provide a valuable learning resource for the scientific community and can indicate areas of interest for future research. They should not be used in isolation to guide treatment choices or public health policy.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.