Proximal Femur Fracture and Vascular Injury in Adults-Case Report

• Main Authors: Pedro José Labronici, Fernando Claudino dos Santos Filho, Yuri Leander Oliveira Diamantino, Eduardo Loureiro, Maria Cristina Diniz Gonçalves Ezequiel, Sérgio Delmonte Alves
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Ortopedia e Traumatologia
• Series: Revista Brasileira de Ortopedia
• Subjects: fraturas do fêmur; lesões do sistema vascular; parafusos ósseos; quadril/cirurgia
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-36162019000300343&lng=en&tlng=en

Abstract Vascular complications in the surgical treatment of hip fractures are rare. Depending on the arterial injury, severe intraoperative bleeding or a subacute hematoma formation with arterial pseudoaneurysm development can occur. In the literature, the more frequently described complications are large local hematomas after osteosynthesis with sliding hip screws. This report shows a case of delayed arterial injury after proximal femur osteosynthesis.