• J Mal Vascul · Feb 2002

    Case Reports

    [Aneurysm and axillary crutches].

    • J Chevalier, P Joly, and P Dhoine.
    • Département de Chirurgie Vasculaire, Centre Hospitalier Saint Vincent, BP 387, 59020 Lille.
    • J Mal Vascul. 2002 Feb 1; 27 (1): 36-8.

    AbstractAxillary crutches may injure the axillary artery. A 65-year-old woman with a leg length discrepancy of 30 cm subsequent to childhood poliomyelitis was seen for subacute ischemia of the right upper limb. Axillary aneurysm with thrombosis due to chronic use of axillary crutches was diagnosed after clinical examinations and surgery. Resection-graft of the aneurysm and thrombectomy was performed and restored patency. Axillary crutches may cause arterial stenosis or aneurysms. Aneurysms may be complicated by acute thrombosis, chronic or acute distal embolization, or axillary mass formation. Besides not using axillary crutches, surgical treatment of crutch-induced axillary aneurysm must be performed before sometimes definitive sequelae develop.

      Pubmed     Full text   Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…