[Injuries of the abdominal aorta. General review apropos of a late discovered case]

The authors present a case of acute ischemia of one lower limb with a an uncommon etiology. The cause of embolism was an incomplete thrombosis of the abdominal aorta; this followed a blunt trauma occured three months before. Some similar cases, reported in the litterature, are resumed. This observation permits the authors to review other cases of rupture and post-traumatic thrombosis of the abdominal aorta.