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[Major vascular complications following surgery for a herniated lumbar disk]
1Servicio de Cirugía Cardiovascular, Hospital N. S. Pino, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, España.
Angiologia
|September 1, 1993
Abstract:
Two cases of arterial injury of the iliac arteries during surgery of the lumbar disc are presented. Both patients were successfully operated, in the first case a primary repair was accomplished, the second patient was treated by means of an ileo-femoral bypass graft. A comment of the pathophysiology, diagnostic and surgical management of this unusual complication is presented.