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Vascular complications after the treatment with Ilizarov external fixators
W G Polak1, S Pawlowski, J Skora
1Department of Vascular, General and Transplantation Surgery, Medical Academy in Wrocław, Poland. adalbert@mp.pl
VASA. Zeitschrift Fur Gefasskrankheiten
|June 22, 2001
Abstract:
Iatrogenic vascular injuries from external fixation in orthopaedics and traumatology are frequent. Three cases of vascular injuries after the treatment with Ilizarov external fixators were treated at our institution. These include two cases of pseudoaneurysms and one case of acute ischaemia of the lower limb. Two patients became symptomatic only after removal of the fixator. In all cases, the diagnosis was made by color flow duplex sonography. All vascular injuries needed surgical repair.