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Baran Simsek1, Orkut Guclu1, Serhat Huseyın1
1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Medicana International Hospital, İstanbul, 2Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Trakya University School of Medicine, Edirne, Turkey.
Abstract:
Chronic axillary crutch use may lead to axillary or brachial artery aneurysms and associated axillobrachial thromboembolic complications. Most of these aneurysms remain asymptomatic and undiagnosed until a complication occurs. Early diagnosis and appropriate surgical management of the aneurysms is required for a favorable outcome. We report a case of bilateral brachial artery aneurysms with left radial and ulnar artery embolisms in a patient who had been using crutches for 33 years due to a congenital skeletal anomaly.
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