Common femoral artery injury secondary to tennis ball strike.

Full Abstract

Tennis is a popular, safe sport that exposes amateur or professional players to minimal risk of injury. Most of this risk is related to musculoskeletal injuries, and vascular trauma is extremely rare. We present a case of a 68-year-old man in whom intermittent claudication developed after his right groin was struck by a tennis ball. The patient sought medical evaluation 2 months after the accident, and a subtotal occlusion of his right common femoral artery was disclosed by angiography and treated by endarterectomy.

Author information

Author/s: Vasdekis, Spyros N (SN); Kakisis, John D (JD); Lazaris, Andreas M (AM); Panayiotides, John G (JG); Angeli, Aikaterini A (AA); Karkaletsis, Konstantinos G (KG);

Affiliation: Vascular Unit, 3rd Department of Surgery, Athens University Medical School, Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece. vas25(-atsign-)otenet.gr

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Case Reports; Journal Article

Journal: Journal of vascular surgery : official publication, the Society for Vascular Surgery [and] International Society for Cardiovascular Surgery, North American Chapter (J Vasc Surg), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2006-Dec; vol 44 (issue 6) : pp 1350-2

Dates: Created 2006/12/05; Completed 2007/01/19;

PMID: 17145441, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 2/18/2009, IMS Date: )

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