title: [A woman with a painful shoulder and cold hand].
abstract: A 65-year-old woman presented with a left-sided humeral fracture and a cold hand, caused by a dissection of her axillar artery. She was treated conservatively and perfusion recovered spontaneously.
authors.affiliation: Medisch Centrum Haaglanden, afd. Chirurgie, Den Haag, the Netherlands. daphnevanembden@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Daphne
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: van Embden
authors.forename: Steven J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Rhemrev
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000209:etiology*; D001366:Axillary Artery / Q000293:injuries*; D005260:Female; D006225:Hand / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D006810:Humeral Fractures / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*