Popliteal artery pseudoaneurysm in a child due to gunshot injury

Abstract

This is a case of a 12-year old boy who sustained gunshot injury to his left knee region. After initial debridement and closure of his wounds, the patient presented seven weeks later with a large pulsatile swelling of his lower thigh and painful flexion deformity of his knee. Angiography revealed large pseudoaneurysm ot 'h opliteal artery and arteriovenous communication. The pant* underwent successful repair of his popliteal artery with "utologous long saphenous vein graft. The initial diagnostic 3U " these cases, the different types of injury and the difficultly in therapeutic cussed. modalities