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There has been an ever-increasing incidence of vascular trauma all over the world. Extremity injuries contribute for 80% of all cases of vascular injuries, and out of them, lower extremities are involved in two thirds of these patients. Males are affected in 90% and females in 10% cases. The true incidence of isolated venous trauma is underreported. Quan et al. [1] reported that only 25% of extremity vascular trauma had isolated venous injury. Despite the variability in magnitude of trauma, most of venous injuries (75%) occur concomitantly with arterial injury
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Kohli, A., Singh, G. (2018). Venous Trauma. In: Khanna, A., Jindal, R. (eds) Venous Disorders. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1108-6_19
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