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Occult vascular injuries following gunshot wounds resulting in long bone fractures of the extremities.
American Surgeon 1995 Februrary
The routine use of arteriography following penetrating injuries to the extremities has declined in popularity in recent years. A careful physical examination coupled with Doppler-derived blood pressure has been shown to be sufficient to determine the presence of significant vascular injuries in most circumstances. Evaluating for occult vascular injuries in the presence of a complex wound involving the fracture of a long bone, however, seems to be an exception to this trend in management. This study was undertaken to ascertain the incidence of occult versus clinically apparent vascular injuries in patients suffering gun shot wounds (GSW) to the extremities that were associated with a long bone fracture. To address the value of invasive arteriographic evaluation, physical examination (pulse palpation, Doppler-derived limb blood pressure) was compared to arteriography in 75 consecutive patients following a GSW that resulted in fracture of the tibia/fibula (n = 28), femur (n = 19), humerus (n = 17), or radius/ulna (n = 11). Fourteen patients (19%) had an abnormal physical examination, with 13 (93%) of these also having an abnormal arteriogram. Of the 61 (81%) patients with a normal physical examination, an occult vascular injury was found on subsequent arteriography in 17 (28%). These occult injuries were classified as minor (intimal flap less than one-fourth the diameter of the vessel, segmental narrowing, noncritical branch vessel injury) or major (large intimal flap, occlusion, pseudoaneurysm, A-V fistula). The majority (83%) of occult injuries were minor and did not require operative intervention.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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