TY - BOOK AU - Ahmed Abdelrahman Ahmed AU - Ayman Mahmoud Fawzy , AU - Magdy Abdelwahab Haggag , AU - Mohammed Elmaadawy , TI - Endovascular management of long superficial femoral artery occlusions with retrograde access technique / PY - 2013/// CY - Cairo : PB - Ahmed Abdelrahman Ahmed , KW - Endovascular management KW - Retrograde access technique KW - Superficial femoral artery N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of General Surgery; Issued also as CD N2 - The most common approach to PTA of the SFA is the contralateral retrograde approach . The primary advantages of this technique are ease of arterial access and vascular access management . Long - segment occlusions can also be alternatively approached with antegrade common femoral artery access . This approach can be cumbersome to obtain vascular access especially in obese patients ER -