Corkscrew collaterals in atherosclerosis obliterans.

Yuichi FujiiTomohiro UedaYuko UchimuraHiroki Teragawa

Published in: Clinical case reports (2017)

Marked calcifications in the femoral artery obscured imaging of the artery in computed tomography (CT) and duplex ultrasonography. The presence of corkscrew collateral arteries in patients with Atherosclerosis obliterans (ASO) indicates total artery occlusion.

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