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Death due to peripheral vascular injury following blunt trauma
1Council of Forensic Medicine of Turkey, Bursa Morque Department, Turkey. drbulenteren@gmail.com
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According to the document of death, 34-year-old forester sustained a crush injury to his lower extremity and pelvis as was pinned between the wood log and ground. During autopsy intramuscular bleeding was observed in the left pelvic region the left femoral region femur was detected intact there was no fracture, but there was observed a traumatic transection of the common femoral artery and vein, which was accompanied with massive bleeding in the surrounding soft tissues and muscles. We presented rare case of traumatic transection of the common femoral artery and vein in a patient without an femoral fracture caused by blunt trauma.
Keywords:
blunt trauma - peripheral vascular injury - autopsy.
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