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Matthew E Hiro1, Effie Pappas-Politis, Umbar Mahmood

  • 1Institute for Tissue Regeneration, Repair, and Rehabilitation, Bay Pines VA Healthcare System, Bay Pines, FL 33744, USA.

The Journal of Hand Surgery
|November 24, 2012
PubMed

A 73-year-old man receiving heparin developed a large hematoma in the first web after a routine blood draw. Color Doppler ultrasound demonstrated a pseudoaneurysm of the princeps pollicis artery. Ultrasound-guided compression resulted in successful thrombosis of the pseudoaneurysm.

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