Angiography for Injuries of the Main Vessels of the Extremities

Abstract

One of the unsolved problems of modern surgery is the treatment of combined injuries of blood vessels and limb bones. Combined vascular and osteoarticular injuries account for 4.3-10% of the total number of limb fractures. When treating this group of patients, surgeons often face a dilemma — to perform primary amputation or try to save the limb. Despite success in surgical treatment of patients with combined injuries of the arteries and bones of the extremities, there is a high frequency of amputations (3-60%) and deaths.