BACKGROUND: The surgical management and outcome of penetrating axillary artery (AA) injuries is presented. @entity1 AND METHODS: @entity1 presenting to Groote Schuur Hospital with penetrating @entity1317 from January 2003 to December 2009 were reviewed. Demographic data, mechanism of injury, associated injuries, angiographic findings, surgical treatment, complications, and mortality were noted. RESULTS: Sixty-eight @entity1 with @entity1317 were identified from an operating @entity130 database. Stab and gunshot wounds accounted for 54 (79.4%) and 14 injuries, respectively. The mean Revised @entity130 Score was 7.5 (range: 3.8-7.8). Angiography was done in 49 @entity1 ; @entity2849 (15) were the two commonest findings. Primary repair of the injured AA was possible in 41 (60.3%) @entity1 . Five AA (7.4%) injuries were ligated. Morbidity was restricted to associated @entity2685 . The limb salvage rate was 100%. CONCLUSIONS: Primary repair of @entity1317 was possible in 60% of @entity1 , and ligation was life-saving in critically ill @entity1 . The associated @entity2685 was the cause of major long-term morbidity.

Civilian penetrating axillary XXXX .

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['Patients', 'patients', 'PATIENTS'] @entity130 :: ('MESH:D014947', 'Disease') :: ['Trauma', 'trauma'] @entity1317 :: ('MESH:D057772', 'Disease') :: ['AA injuries'] @entity2849 :: ('MESH:D017541', 'Disease') :: ['false aneurysms (32) and total occlusions'] @entity2685 :: ('MESH:C536265', 'Disease') :: ['brachial plexus injuries', 'brachial plexus injury']
@entity1317 :: (MESH:D057772,Disease) :: ['artery injuries']
