How arteriosclerosis became a pain in the butt
An elderly patient's pain was due to a blockage in a branch of the internal iliac artery, a case report says
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Consider a vascular cause when patients present with exertional buttock pain, say Japanese authors who report a case of gluteal arteriosclerosis in an elderly patient.
The 89-year-old man presented with a three-day history of pain in the left buttock whenever he moved.