An unusual cause of femoral pseudoaneurysm

Abstract

Superficial femoral artery pseudoaneurysms are rare and usually iatrogenic. We describe the case of a 27-year-old patient who presented a week after trauma with a piece of iron lodged in the middle third of the thigh, a pulsatile mass revealing a pseudoaneurysm of the superficial femoral artery. The patient underwent urgent surgery. We performed a direct suture of the arterial defect without using a venous graft. The postoperative course was uneventful.