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Abstract

An 11-year old boy presented with a blunt trauma in the right inguinal area after a bicycle accident. Initial clinical picture was indicative of decreased arterial blood supply to the right lower extremity and the diagnostic confirmation was made with a colour flow Doppler ultrasonography. During operative investigation, a thrombosis of the common femoral artery, 3.5 cm in length, was found. The thrombotic part of the femoral artery was removed and replaced with a venous graft taken from the major saphenous vein, before the saphenofemoral junction. Postoperative course was uneventful. Traumatic thrombosis of the common femoral artery as a result of a blunt trauma is very rare, as only 4 relevant cases have been described previously.
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Authors and Affiliations

Ioannis Patoulias
1
Ioannis Panopoulos
2
Georgios Pitoulias
3
Thomas Feidantsis
1
Dimitrios Patoulias
4

  1. First Department of Pediatric Surgery, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece, General Hospital “G. Gennimatas”, Greece
  2. Department of Pediatrics, General Hospital “G. Gennimatas”, Thessaloniki, Greece
  3. Department of Vascular Surgery, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece, General Hospital “G. Gennimatas”, Greece
  4. Second Propedeutic Department of Internal Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, General Hospital “Hippokration”, Greece

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