[Our experience in the surgical management of bull horn vascular injuries]

Vascular trauma caused by bull horn injuries can be regarded as a subgroup of vascular traumatology, due to its particular etiology, mechanism of action, associated injuries and surgical management. In this paper, the authors report their experience in the management of 56 such injuries, for the last 20 years, analysing the annual frequency (more common in summer time), the nature of the injury, the most commonly affected vessels and the surgical reconstruction or revascularization methods employed. The quality of results are discussed according some variable, such as is the case of the precocity of the repair, the degree of contamination, the occurence of post operative infections and the nature of the reconstructive or revascularization method employed. Finnaly, a comparison with similar reports already published in the literature is made.