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  • Always assess local edema in limb trauma cases to rule out serious complications.
  • Post-traumatic swelling in the wrist, even without fractures, can lead to significant issues like radial artery pseudoaneurysm.
  • A reported case demonstrates that radial artery pseudoaneurysm from wrist trauma can be effectively treated with conservative treatment.

Article Abstract

In the presence of limb trauma, the appearance of local edema should always be carefully examined by Orthopaedics surgeons. A post-traumatic wrist swelling without fracture could even lead to serious pathologies and relative sequelaes. These include the radial artery pseudoaneurysm. In this report we present a case of radial artery pseudoaneurysm following wrist trauma, successfully treated whit conservative treatment.

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