Radial artery aneurysm resulting from repetitive occupational injury: Tailor's thumb.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
True radial artery aneurysms are very rare and a cause is rarely identified. 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. 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.
Medical subject headings
- Aneurysm
- Cumulative Trauma Disorders
- Occupational Diseases
- Radial Artery
- Thumb