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Arterial injuries associated with lower-extremity fractures.

Department of Vascular Surgery, KAT-Hospital, Athens, Greece.
Cardiovascular Surgery 03/1995; 3(1):15-8. pp.15-8
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ABSTRACT The records of 110 patients with arterial injuries of the lower extremities associated with bone fractures, and managed in the authors' vascular surgery clinic, were reviewed. The majority (72%) were young men; 66 had blunt and 44 penetrating arterial injuries. A total of 92 patients were treated by saphenous vein interposition grafting, 12 with composite grafts and six with polytetrafluoroethylene grafts. The limb salvage rate was 93%. All eight amputations were in neglected cases with arterial injury at the popliteal or infrapopliteal level and associated with muscle loss.

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Keywords

44 penetrating arterial injuries
 
92 patients
 
arterial injuries
 
arterial injury
 
authors' vascular surgery clinic
 
composite grafts
 
limb salvage rate
 
lower extremities
 
muscle loss
 
polytetrafluoroethylene grafts
 

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