Pseudoaneurysm of the Anterior Tibial Artery following Ankle Arthroscopy in a Soccer Player

Table 1

Cases of pseudoaneurysm of the anterior tibial artery after ankle arthroscopy reported in the literature.

Author, year	Number; of cases	Age; (y.o.)	Sex	Comorbidity	Procedures during; ankle arthroscopy	Time to surgery; for ATA	Size of pseudoaneurysm	Treatment for ATA pseudoaneurysm
O’Farrell et al. 1997 [10]	1	30	Male	Prosthetic aortic valve implantation	Removal of anterior tibiotalar osteophytes	1 week	2.0 × 2.0 cm	Ligation/anastomosis
Salgado et al. 1998 [11]	1	12	Female	None	Diagnostic arthroscopy	2 months	2.0 × 2.5 cm	Ligation
Mariani et al. 2001 [12]	1	50	Female	None	Synovectomy	1 week	2.0 × 2.5 cm	Ligation/vein graft
Darwish et al. 2004 [13]	1	70	Female	None	Synovectomy	6 weeks	4.0 × 4.0 cm	Ligation
Kotwal et al. 2007 [14]	1	20	Male	Hemophilia A	Excision of tibial osteophyte,; debridement of the ankle	10 days	2.8 × 1.7 cm	Ligation/vein graft
Jang et al. 2008 [15]	1	25	Male	None	Synovectomy,; ATFL reconstruction	8 weeks	3.5 × 2.8 × 1.9 cm	Compression
Ramavath et al. 2009 [16]	1	39	Female	Rheumatoid arthritis	Synovectomy	3 weeks	3.0 × 6.0 cm	Ligation
Brimmo and Parekh 2010 [17]	1	36	Male	None	Synovectomy,; microfracture for OCL	11 weeks	NA	Embolisation
Jacobs et al. 2011 [18]	1	63	Female	Atrial fibrillation	Synovectomy	Approximately; 12 days	NA	Embolisation
Jeffery et al. 2014 [19]	1	80	Male	Gout	NA	32 days	3.2 cm	Ligation
Chamseddin and Kirkwood 2016 [20]	1	35	Male	Hemophilia A	Debridement of anterior tibiotalar exostosis,; synovectomy	Approximately; 49 days	3.5 × 6.0 × 3.2 cm	Ligation
This case	1	19	Male	None	Debridement of anterior tibiotalar osteophyte,; synovectomy	19 days	2.5 × 2.2 × 1.3 cm	Anastomosis

ATA: anterior tibial artery; ATFL: anterior tibiofibular ligament; NA: not available; OCL: osteochondral lesion.