DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2020.v08i11.010

Pages: 2490-2492

Pure knee dislocations are rare injuries .Vascular-nervous complications must be explored systematically. The authors report the case of a 58 years old patient, who presented to the ER with a traumatic knee dislocation associated to a paralysis of the external popliteal sciatic nerve and an occlusion of the popliteal artery. The patient benefited from a reduction, a femoro-tibial stabilization by an external fixator bridging the knee and a bypass of the popliteal artery using a graft from the saphenous vein intern.