Isolated complete popliteal artery rupture associated with knee dislocation: Case reports

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 3-6

  Witz, Misha ^a   Witz, Shula ^a   Tobi, Eitan ^a   Shnaker, Ali ^a   Lehmann, Jonathan ^a  

^a MEIR MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Knee dislocation; Lower extremity trauma; Popliteal artery disruption; Trauma of the knee

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTERY RUPTURE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; KNEE DISLOCATION; KNEE INJURY; NORMAL HUMAN; POPLITEAL ARTERY; REVASCULARIZATION; VASCULAR SURGERY; ADOLESCENT; AGED; HEMATOMA; INJURY; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULSE RATE; RADIOGRAPHY; RUPTURE; SAPHENOUS VEIN; THROMBOSIS; TRANSPLANTATION; VASCULARIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; KNEE DISLOCATION; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPLITEAL ARTERY; PULSE; RUPTURE; SAPHENOUS VEIN; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 4043144115     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-003-0423-2     Document Type: Article

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