Radiation injury is an uncommon but increasingly important cause of arterial insufficiency. Radiation-induced vascular compromise can threaten limbs once thought salvaged by radiotherapy in the course of treating neoplasms. Two cases of latent arterial occlusion secondary to radiotherapy are reported. The alteration of tissue architecture surrounding this type of arterial injury requires a different approach to vascular repair afforded only by extraanatomic bypass grafting.
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