2018 Volume 27 Issue 2 Pages 73-75
We report a case of common femoral artery pseudoaneurysm caused by bone cement after total hip arthroplasty. The patient was an 83-year-old woman. She had undergone a right total hip arthroplasty for rapidly destructive coxarthropathy in November 2016. One month later, she presented with progressive anemia. Computed tomography revealed a right common femoral artery pseudoaneurysm. Bone cement was found within the pseudoaneurysm and near the injury site of the right the common femoral artery. We considered the cause of pseudoaneurysm to be repeated trauma by the protruding bone cement. We surgically removed the bone cement, and reconstructed the artery using a knitted Dacron graft.
