A post-traumatic pseudoaneurysm in the ulnar digital artery of the thumb in a patient with compromised vascularity due to a previous harvest of the ipsilateral radial artery is reported. To the authors’ knowledge, the present case is the first such description of a pseudoaneurysm in the digital artery of a patient with compromised collateral blood flow.
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