ACUTE-ISCHEMIA OF THE LOWER LEGS FROM BLUNT ABDOMINAL-TRAUMA - AN UNUSUAL CAUSE OF ATHEROEMBOLISM - CASE-REPORT

Authors
SHINDO S OKAMOTO H NAGAI M KIMURA H MATSUMOTO J YUMOTO S MORI K TANAKA N NOBORI M
Citation
S. Shindo et al., ACUTE-ISCHEMIA OF THE LOWER LEGS FROM BLUNT ABDOMINAL-TRAUMA - AN UNUSUAL CAUSE OF ATHEROEMBOLISM - CASE-REPORT, The journal of trauma, injury, infection, and critical care, 36(3), 1994, pp. 451-453
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Emergency Medicine & Critical Care
Journal title
The journal of trauma, injury, infection, and critical care → ACNP
Volume
36
Issue
3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
451 - 453
Database
ISI
SICI code
Abstract
A 79-year-old man sustained blunt abdominal trauma in an automobile cr ash, resulting in intra-abdominal bleeding and acute ischemia of the l ower extremities. Angiography demonstrated occlusion of the popliteal arteries bilaterally. He died of multiple organ failure despite immedi ate surgical intervention. Pathologie examination revealed diffuse ath eroembolism of the lower legs.