[Intermittent claudication of the buttock (author's transl)].

Intermittent claudication of the buttock of arterial origin is a syndrome too often overlooked though easily diagnosed from the patient's history and clinical examination. It is due to lesions of the iliac arteries coexisting with permeable femoral and popliteal arteries. In about one-third of the cases the common iliac artery is completely occluded; in the remaining two-thirds the lesion consists of pre-occlusive stenosis and carries a high risk of acute ischaemia in the corresponding limb.