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Anterior tibial artery pseudoaneurysm after ankle arthroscopy
C J Salgado1, D Mukherjee, M A Quist
1Department of General/Plastic Surgery Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA.
Cardiovascular Surgery (London, England)
|July 8, 1999
Abstract
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Arthroscopy of the ankle has dramatically expanded its role in diagnostic and therapeutic value afforded to the patient; however, it is not without complications. Although the majority of the complications described are neurological in origin, vascular injuries can occur. A case of a patient with normal coagulation parameters who underwent a purely diagnostic ankle arthroscopy and later developed a pseudoaneurysm of her distal anterior tibial artery is described. The pseudoaneurysm was resected without complications and early postoperative recovery has been uneventful.