Aims of the Palgrave Critical University Studies SeriesUniversities everywhere are experiencing unprecedented changes and most of the changes being inflicted upon universities are being imposed by political and policy elites without any debate or discussion, and with little understanding of what is being lost, jettisoned, damaged or destroyed. The over-arching intent of this series is to foster, encourage, and publish scholarship relating to academia that is troubled by the direction of these reforms occurring around the world. The series provides a much-needed forum for the intensive and extensive discussion of the consequences of ill-conceived and inappropriate university reforms and will do this with particular emphasis on those perspectives and groups whose views have hitherto been ignored, disparaged or silenced. The series explores these changes across a number of domains including: the deleterious effects on academic work, the impact on student learning, the distortion of academic leadership, and the perversion of institutional politics. Above all, the series encourages critically informed debate, where this is being expunged or closed down in universities.

Isolated bilateral common femoral artery stenoses or occlusions are an ex tremely rare arterial lesion and have not been previously reported. Herein the authors report 2 patients with this lesion with remarkable similarities. Both are similarly aged women, diabetic, hypertensive, and cigarette smokers. Both pa tients had thigh and calf claudication, diminished or absent femoral pulses, and diminished Doppler pressures from the thigh down. Common femoral endar terectomy and patch angioplasty with and without distal bypass was successful in the management of these 2 patients. The signs and symptoms of this lesion are identical to those of patients with aortic stenosis or bilateral iliac artery stenoses.

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