RT Journal
A1 TORRANCE G
T1 POpliteal aneurisms
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1909
FD July 31
VO LIII
IS 5
SP 381
OP 381
DO 10.1001/jama.1909.92550050041003b
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.92550050041003b
AB I. A POPLITEAL ANEURISM, IN A PATIENT WITH ONE LEG, SUCCESSFULLY TREATED BY THE MATAS METHOD 
    C. F., a colored miner, aged 41, was admitted to my service at the Hillman Hospital on July 8, 1908, with a pulsating tumor of the left popliteal space. His right leg had been amputated just below the knee, twenty-two years previously, as a result of severe burns. He denied any specific history or injury of this leg. He first noticed a lump, about the size of a lemon, in this region two years before, and said that it always grew larger when he was at work and decreased in size when he kept quiet. He had not had much pain, but the foot had been cold and stiff for the past year. The mass had not increased in size, and pulsated slightly; a bruit could be heard; it