Common Iliac Vein Injury in Blunt Abdominal Trauma Without Pelvic Fractures

Iliac vein injury in the absence of pelvic fractures is rare. We present the case of a 27-year-old male involved in a motorcycle crash. Imaging demonstrated a lumbar hernia and pelvic hematoma in the absence of pelvic fractures. The patient became unstable and required emergency surgery demonstratin...

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Autores principales: Sheets, Nicholas W, Roderick, Olivas, Plurad, David S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8110284/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33987054
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14401
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description Iliac vein injury in the absence of pelvic fractures is rare. We present the case of a 27-year-old male involved in a motorcycle crash. Imaging demonstrated a lumbar hernia and pelvic hematoma in the absence of pelvic fractures. The patient became unstable and required emergency surgery demonstrating an iliac vein injury requiring ligation. Diagnosis and management of this rare injury is reviewed.
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spelling pubmed-81102842021-05-12 Common Iliac Vein Injury in Blunt Abdominal Trauma Without Pelvic Fractures Sheets, Nicholas W Roderick, Olivas Plurad, David S Cureus Emergency Medicine Iliac vein injury in the absence of pelvic fractures is rare. We present the case of a 27-year-old male involved in a motorcycle crash. Imaging demonstrated a lumbar hernia and pelvic hematoma in the absence of pelvic fractures. The patient became unstable and required emergency surgery demonstrating an iliac vein injury requiring ligation. Diagnosis and management of this rare injury is reviewed. Cureus 2021-04-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8110284/ /pubmed/33987054 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14401 Text en Copyright © 2021, Sheets et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title Common Iliac Vein Injury in Blunt Abdominal Trauma Without Pelvic Fractures
title_full Common Iliac Vein Injury in Blunt Abdominal Trauma Without Pelvic Fractures
title_fullStr Common Iliac Vein Injury in Blunt Abdominal Trauma Without Pelvic Fractures
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title_short Common Iliac Vein Injury in Blunt Abdominal Trauma Without Pelvic Fractures
title_sort common iliac vein injury in blunt abdominal trauma without pelvic fractures
topic Emergency Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8110284/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14401
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