A case of fibromuscular dysplasia of the external iliac arteries in a seventy-one-year-old woman treated by percutaneous angioplasty is reported. External iliac artery fibrodysplasia exhibits the classic corrugated "string of beads" angiographic appearance. These lesions are symptomatic when the arterial lumen is sufficiently compromised to reduce blood flow or when superposed thrombosis and/or embolization occurs.
Treatment by percutaneous angioplasty gives excellent immediate morphologic results. Claudication symptoms were absent during a one-year follow-up.
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