PMID: 15227485Jan 1, 1991Paper

Chronic dissection of the anterior tibial artery leading to acute aneurysmal dilatation

Texas Heart Institute Journal
A O de SalazarA Serrano

Abstract

We present a clinical case of chronic dissection of the anterior tibial artery leading to acute aneurysmal dilatation. Our patient, a 22-year-old man, had a history of trauma at the middle third of his left leg. Because of impending ischemia, he was diagnosed by emergency arteriography. We ligated the proximal and distal ends of the dissection and used a reversed saphenous vein for a short end-to-end bypass. Although the evolution of this dilatation had been silent, its clinical presentation was spectacular. The case is worthy of attention because of its extreme rarity, both as a dissection of a peripheral artery caused by trauma and as an aneurysmal dilatation at tibial level.

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