DOI: 10.36347/sjmcr.2017.v05i11.017

Pages: 752-755

Traumatic aneurysms can occur anywhere in the body, and is caused when the vascular wall of the underlying artery is subject to injury. They usually follow a penetrating injury, like that involving a knife, a projectile object or any foreign body projected as a missile. Uncommon causes include a blunt injury with no open wound. We present a case of a 17 year old boy who came with complaints of swelling in the antero-lateral aspect below the left knee for the past one week following a history of blunt trauma. Diagnosis of anterior tibial artery pseudoaneurysm was made on computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and confirmed peroperatively.