ABSTRACT

Although arteriosclerotic occlusive disease is usually segmental in nature and therefore generally amenable to corrective treatment, it is well recognized that obliterative disease is usually a generalized process, which often involves multiple segments of the arterial tree.[1,2] In the lower extremities, combined involvement of both the aortoiliac and femoropopliteal systems is a commonly encountered manifestation of such characteristic diffuse distribution of the disease process.