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Published on: February 10, 2015
Common femoral artery injury secondary to tennis ball strike
Spyros N Vasdekis1, John D Kakisis, Andreas M Lazaris
1Vascular Unit, 3rd Department of Surgery, Athens University Medical School, Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece. vas25@otenet.gr
Abstract:
Tennis is a popular, safe sport that exposes amateur or professional players to minimal risk of injury. Most of this risk is related to musculoskeletal injuries, and vascular trauma is extremely rare. We present a case of a 68-year-old man in whom intermittent claudication developed after his right groin was struck by a tennis ball. The patient sought medical evaluation 2 months after the accident, and a subtotal occlusion of his right common femoral artery was disclosed by angiography and treated by endarterectomy.
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