Recurrent hemarthrosis after total knee arthroplasty

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Publication date 2010
Journal Knee Surgery Sports Traumatology Arthroscopy
Volume | Issue number 18 | 7
Pages (from-to) 898-900
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  • Faculty of Medicine (AMC-UvA)
Abstract This report describes a case of spontaneous recurrent hemarthrosis of the knee that presented 4 weeks after total knee arthroplasty. Femoral arteriography showed a false aneurysm of a branch of the inferior lateral geniculate artery. Therapeutic embolization of the arterial branch was performed using three platinum coils with good clinical result and good knee joint function. Hemarthrosis has not recurred since embolization
Document type Article
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00167-009-1031-6
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