Publication: Case Report on Pseudoaneurysm of Brachial Artery: A Rare Complication of Paediatric Supracondylar Humerus Fracture Pinning
Date
2019
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Institute of Medicine
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Pseudoaneurysm (PA) of the brachial artery in pediatric supracondylar humerus fracture who have undergone closed reduction and percutaneous pinning is a rare complication. A few cases have been reported in medical literature. This case report sheds some insight into early identification and management outcome of such complication. Rapidly progressive swelling in antecubital fossa in cases of supracondylar fracture who have undergone pinning should arouse suspicion of vascular lesion. It should be timely intervened. Surgical intervention of pseudoaneurysm with reversed saphenous venous graft has shown to have no early vascular complication.
Keywords: Case report, supracondylar fracture, pseudoaneurysm, supracondylar fracture
Description
Prawesh S Bhandari1, Priska Bastola2, Dinesh Gurung3
1Department of Orthopaedics, Maharajgunj Medical Campus, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Institute of Medicine, Maharajgunj, Kathmandu
2Department of Cardiothoracic Vascular Anaesthesiology, Maharajgunj Medical Campus, Manmohan Cardiothoracic Vascular and Transplant Center, Institute of Medicine, Maharajgunj, Kathmandu
3Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Maharajgunj Medical Campus, Manmohan Cardiothoracic Vascular and Transplant Center, Institute of Medicine, Maharajgunj, Kathmandu
Keywords
Case report, supracondylar fracture, pseudoaneurysm