Abstract
Vascular complications related to hip arthroplasty are common, however, total occlusion of a critical artery that threatens survival of an extremity is extremely rare. We report on a patient who had thrombotic arterial occlusions at the iliac and popliteal arteries following hemiarthroplasty of the hip.
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Fig. 1
(A) A 82-year-old patient visited our hospital with left hip pain. This radiograph shows a fracture of the neck of left femur. (B) A bipolar hemiarthroplasty was done with a routine manner.
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