Abstract
The danger of a concomitant vascular injury is of real concern to the surgeon treating a fracture. Althogh gangrene of the extremity rarely occurs, crippling ischemic myositis and neuritis can follow even a brief interruption of the arterial circulation: In this case report we describe two patients with rare vascular complications of fractures consisting in dislocations of branches of major arteries into fracture sites.
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