title: Radial artery aneurysm resulting from repetitive occupational injury: Tailor's thumb.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  True radial artery aneurysms are very rare and a cause is rarely identified.
  
  
  METHODS
  An unusual case of a true radial artery aneurysm in a tailor of fifty years; presenting with a growing, tender lump at the base of his thumb.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Radial artery aneurysms are classically pseudoaneurysms from iatrogenic traumatic injury - arterial cannulation. This is the first case in the literature to demonstrate a true aneurysm secondary to repetitive occupational injury.
authors.affiliation: Department of Vascular Surgery, North Middlesex University Hospital, UK.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Behar
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Winston
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Knowles
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Myint
mesh_terms: D000783:Aneurysm / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D012090:Cumulative Trauma Disorders / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008026:Ligation; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D017534:Radial Artery / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D013933:Thumb / Q000098:blood supply*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures