Case report highlights a rare case of arterial insufficiency leading to claudication in a young male.
Exertional lower extremity pain due to arterial insufficiency is uncommon in the young. In this case report we present a 34-year-old, previously healthy male with sudden onset left lower limb pain upon walking for 50 meters. He was found to have a spontaneous dissection of his external iliac artery, which is a rare pathology. After successful open revascularization, he made an uneventful recovery.
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