Author(s): Fernandes, PX ; Medeiros, DM ; Teixeira, RC ; Nunes, AM ; Seco, AS ; Caetano, AC
Date: 2020
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/32670
Origin: Lusíadas Saúde
Subject(s): Fixação Intramedular de Fraturas; Fraturas da Anca; Fraturas de Stress; Fracture Fixation, Intramedullary; Hip Fractures; Fractures, Stress
Proximal femoral fractures represent a health problem of global proportions. Iatrogenic vascular lesion in the treatment of these fractures is an unusual potentially lethal complication, reported in only 0.2% of trochanteric fractures treated with intramedullary implants. Superior gluteal artery injury is extremely rare, with only two cases reported in literature.
