Axillary arterial thrombosis secondary to anterior shoulder dislocation


Published online: Oct 27 2006

Dragos Popescu, Jenaro-Angel Fernández-Valencia, Andrés Combalía

Department of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery, Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona, Spain

Abstract

We report the case of a 59-year-old male patient who returned to the Hospital with severe pain in the right upper arm, 9 hours after reduction of an anterior dislocation of the right shoulder. A thrombosis of the axillary artery was quickly diagnosed and the rapid treatment allowed revascularisation in the arm without any major consequences.

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