title: Endovascular treatment of external iliac artery injuries after hip arthroplasty.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report endovascular repair of injuries to the external iliac artery during hip surgery.
  
  
  METHODS
  Two elderly women with histories of chronically infected hip prostheses were found to have iatrogenic leaking pseudoaneurysms of the external iliac artery due to hip surgery trauma in the past. Both were treated successfully with a Jostent Peripheral Stent-Graft. The first patient died 17 months after treatment, and the second was well, with an excluded false aneurysm, at the 6-month follow-up.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Stent-graft repair may be an appropriate and effective treatment for some traumatic arterial lesions.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Surgery, University of Trieste, Italy. r.adovasio@fcm.units.it
authors.forename: Roberto
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Adovasio
authors.forename: Fabio Pozzi
authors.initials: FP
authors.lastname: Mucelli
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lubrano
authors.forename: Cristiana
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gasparini
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Belgrano
authors.forename: Filippo
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Griselli
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Fancellu
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000800:Angioplasty, Balloon; D019644:Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip / Q000009:adverse effects*; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D005260:Female; D006622:Hip Prosthesis / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D007083:Iliac Artery / Q000293:injuries* / Q000601:surgery*; D015607:Stents