ISOLATED COMMON ILIAC ARTERY-OCCLUSION SECONDARY TO ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE RUPTURE FROM BLUNT ABDOMINAL-TRAUMA - CASE-REPORT AND REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE

Traumatic isolated common iliac artery occlusion is unusual, Only rare cases of common iliac arterial injuries resulting from blunt abdomina l trauma have been reported, and most of them were attributed to the s eat-belt syndrome and associated with visceral organ perforation or pe lvic fracture. We reported an unusual isolated common iliac artery occ lusion secondary to atherosclerotic plaque rupture from blunt abdomina l compressive trauma without other visceral injury, This case presente d with acute limb ischemia and paralysis that was successfully treated by thromboendarterectomy. The symptoms and signs, surgical modalities , and associated injuries were reported and the literature was also re viewed.