Practical management of venous injury during pelvic surgery for urologic disease.
There is a selection of techniques (ligation, lateral suture repair, venous patch graft, end to end repair, and vein replacement graft) which can be adopted to deal with venous injury during pelvic surgery for urologic disease. Technical details of the various methods of repair are described for the benefit of the urologist who occasionally finds himself with a major venous injury and no vascular surgeon available to help.
D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods; D010388:Pelvis / Q000098:blood supply*; D013536:Suture Techniques; D014570:Urologic Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D014680:Veins / Q000293:injuries* / Q000601:surgery