Venous gangrene secondary to an aorto-caval fistula
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Venous gangrene secondary to an aorto-caval fistula.
W e report the unusual case of a 60-year-old-man presenting with left lower limb venous gangrene caused by an aorto-caval fistula. There was associated bilateral lower limb and scrotal oedema. In this case a ruptured aortic aneurysm with acute fistulation into the vena cava (fig 1) was repaired in the conventional manner. However, the patient underwent above-knee amputation of irreversible veno...
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عنوان ژورنال: Emergency Medicine Journal
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1472-0205,1472-0213
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2006.039487