ISSN : 1301-5680
e-ISSN : 2149-8156
Turkish Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery     
COEXISTENCE of VASCULAR and NEUROGENIC CLAUDICATION
İzzet HOŞGÖR, Hidayet SARI
İstanbul Üniversitesi, Cerrahpaşa Tıp Fakültesi , İSTANBUL
Intermittent claudication is a major symptom of chronic arterial insufficiency for lower extremites which is accentuated with exercise and relieved by resting. However similar symptoms may be observed in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis, and the diagnosis bsecomes complicated in petients suffering from botc disorelers. The ethiopethogenesis of intermittent vascular clauclication is quite clear but controveries still exists on the efrology of neurogenre claudicatren. Hew , me present a case suffering from both lumber spinal stenosis and peripherial vascular disease of the lower extremites.
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