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Ann R Coll Surg Engl. 1990 Sep;72(5):345.
The incidence of congenitally absent foot pulses.
George Eliot Hospital, Nuneaton.
The pedal pulses of 547 young healthy subjects were examined using digital palpation and a Doppler probe to determine the incidence of congenitally absent foot pulses. The posterior tibial (PT) pulse was absent in only one subject (0.18%), while the dorsalis pedis (DP) pulse was bilaterally absent in nine subjects (1.8%) and unilaterally absent in a further six subjects. The low incidence of congenital absence makes the clinical finding of an absent pedal pulse in later life a more significant marker of peripheral vascular disease than current surgical texts would have us believe.
PMID: 2185683 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
PMCID: PMC2499134
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