PSEUDOANEURYSM OF THE PROPER HEPATIC-ARTERY WITH DUODENAL FISTULA APPEARING AS A LATE COMPLICATION OF BLUNT ABDOMINAL-TRAUMA

Authors
ABOUJAOUDE M NOEL B BEAUDOIN M GHATTAS G LALONDE L BUI TB OLIVA VL
Citation
M. Aboujaoude et al., PSEUDOANEURYSM OF THE PROPER HEPATIC-ARTERY WITH DUODENAL FISTULA APPEARING AS A LATE COMPLICATION OF BLUNT ABDOMINAL-TRAUMA, The journal of trauma, injury, infection, and critical care, 40(1), 1996, pp. 123-125
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Emergency Medicine & Critical Care
Journal title
The journal of trauma, injury, infection, and critical care → ACNP
Volume
40
Issue
1
Year of publication
1996
Pages
123 - 125
Database
ISI
SICI code
Abstract
Posttraumatic pseudoaneurysms of the hepatic artery are rare and usual ly occur as a complication of open abdominal trauma. Even less common is the coexisting presence of enteric fistulization. We report a patie nt with upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage occurring 3 years after blun t abdominal trauma resulting from a pseudoaneurysm of the proper hepat ic artery with duodenal fistulization. The patient was treated success fully by ligation of the proper hepatic artery and closure of the duod enal opening.