An isolated iliac vein injury due to blunt trauma by a bicycle handlebar without a pelvic fracture: A case report
İbrahim Duvan, İlker İnce, Melike Şenkal, Kasım Karapınar, Uğursay Kızıltepe.
Abstract
Abdominal and pelvic blunt vascular trauma without skeletal injury is considered a rare condition. Iliac vein injuries are usually seen with
penetrating trauma, whereas they result from blunt trauma very rarely. A 15-year-old boy was admitted who fell from a bicycle and got his left
hypogastric region hit by the handlebar. He had an isolated left external iliac vein injury and massive bleeding related to this blunt trauma,
which eventually resulted in hypovolemic shock and a huge regional hematoma. The hematoma compressed the left external iliac artery and
triggered ischemia. In conclusion, prompt diagnosis and treatment are of utmost importance to save the extremities and lives of patients.
The articles in Bibliomed are open access articles licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
We use cookies and other tracking technologies to work properly, to analyze our website traffic, and to understand where our visitors are coming from. More InfoGot It!
