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The use of a shunting catheter for a ruptured brachial artery following open elbow dislocation
M M al-Qattan1, R M Zuker, M J Weinberg
1Division of Plastic Surgery, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Journal of Hand Surgery (Edinburgh, Scotland)
|December 1, 1994
Abstract:
A rare case of rupture of the brachial artery with distal ischaemia following open elbow dislocation in a child is reported. The use of a shunting catheter successfully maintained the distal circulation until definitive branchial artery reconstruction was performed.