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We report on the treatment of a patient who sustained combined arterial and venous injury to the left iliac vessels as a result of a gunshot wound. Repair was accomplished as a staged procedure following lifesaving ligation of both artery and vein, using extraanatomic, cross-femoral polytetrafluoroethylene (arterial) and saphenous vein (venous) bypass techniques, followed by prophylactic caval filter placement. Principles of management with respect to combined arterial venous vascular injury are discussed, with special reference to controversies surrounding repair of major venous injury.
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Posner, M.P., Alty, C.G. & Lee, H.M. Cross-femoral bypass graft for combined iliac arterial venous injury. Annals of Vascular Surgery 5, 286–290 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02329388
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