[Popliteal artery entrapment syndrome in 3 young athletes]. / Síndrome de atrapamiento de arteria poplítea en tres jóvenes deportistas.

Three cases of entrapment of the popliteal arteries from three young patients are reported. In all cases, the symptomatology was erroneously attributed to several muscular injuries produced in practice of a sport: Basketball, Football and Roller Hockey, respectively. In all cases, symptoms were progressing for 6 months as a minimum. The roads followed by these patients until they were visited in a Vascular Surgery Department is described. Clinical picture, the results from the different examinations practiced and the applied treatments to each patients are described.