[Vascular injuries: vascular syndromes and their clinical diagnosis]

The authors present a short review of vascular trauma and their clinical signs. The diagnosis of traumatic vascular lesions is rather obvious in most cases, but it may also be uneasy in a lot of other cases. The frequency and the localization of vascular trauma is mentioned relating to publications about series; no part of the body seems to be safe for arterial and/or venous complications. Not infrequently does it concern polytraumatic patients, which show bone, nerve, lung and abdominal lesions, etc. Haemorrhage and shock are frequent clinical signs. Tissular ischemia is found in 70 to 90% of the vascular lesions of the limbs, which on their own represent 75 to 90% of all vascular trauma. It is often necessary to use angiography to determine the extent of the lesions before surgical intervention.