Emergency endovascular management of the common femoral artery rupture due to radiotherapy for scrotal carcinoma

We describe the case of a 72-year-old man with massive hemorrhage and shock resulting from rupture of the left common femoral artery as a complication of radiotherapy in the groin for cancer of the scrotum. This complication is extremely rare, presents dramatically, and is usually fatal. The patient...

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Autores principales: Bracale, Umberto Marcello, Merola, Giovanni, del Guercio, Luca, Sodo, Maurizio, Maria Giribono, Anna, Bracale, Umberto
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4299364/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25610613
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2047981614545154
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author Bracale, Umberto Marcello
Merola, Giovanni
del Guercio, Luca
Sodo, Maurizio
Maria Giribono, Anna
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description We describe the case of a 72-year-old man with massive hemorrhage and shock resulting from rupture of the left common femoral artery as a complication of radiotherapy in the groin for cancer of the scrotum. This complication is extremely rare, presents dramatically, and is usually fatal. The patient was successfully treated with a stent graft deployment in order to achieve immediate hemostasis maintaining blood flow to the leg. Open surgery is not ideal in those cases especially when there is extensive tumor involvement of the groin causing altered anatomy and increasing the risk of re-bleeding.
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spelling pubmed-42993642015-01-21 Emergency endovascular management of the common femoral artery rupture due to radiotherapy for scrotal carcinoma Bracale, Umberto Marcello Merola, Giovanni del Guercio, Luca Sodo, Maurizio Maria Giribono, Anna Bracale, Umberto Acta Radiol Short Rep Case Report We describe the case of a 72-year-old man with massive hemorrhage and shock resulting from rupture of the left common femoral artery as a complication of radiotherapy in the groin for cancer of the scrotum. This complication is extremely rare, presents dramatically, and is usually fatal. The patient was successfully treated with a stent graft deployment in order to achieve immediate hemostasis maintaining blood flow to the leg. Open surgery is not ideal in those cases especially when there is extensive tumor involvement of the groin causing altered anatomy and increasing the risk of re-bleeding. SAGE Publications 2015-01-06 /pmc/articles/PMC4299364/ /pubmed/25610613 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2047981614545154 Text en © The Foundation Acta Radiologica 2015 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page(http://www.uk.sagepub.com/aboutus/openaccess.htm).
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Merola, Giovanni
del Guercio, Luca
Sodo, Maurizio
Maria Giribono, Anna
Bracale, Umberto
Emergency endovascular management of the common femoral artery rupture due to radiotherapy for scrotal carcinoma
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title_full Emergency endovascular management of the common femoral artery rupture due to radiotherapy for scrotal carcinoma
title_fullStr Emergency endovascular management of the common femoral artery rupture due to radiotherapy for scrotal carcinoma
title_full_unstemmed Emergency endovascular management of the common femoral artery rupture due to radiotherapy for scrotal carcinoma
title_short Emergency endovascular management of the common femoral artery rupture due to radiotherapy for scrotal carcinoma
title_sort emergency endovascular management of the common femoral artery rupture due to radiotherapy for scrotal carcinoma
topic Case Report
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25610613
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2047981614545154
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