@article{Carlino_Ieranò_Venafro_Cimmino_Mancusi_Lassandro_Angelini_Sforza_Guarino_2019, title={An uncommon case of acute lower limb ischemia}, volume={13}, url={https://www.italjmed.org/ijm/article/view/itjm.2019.1131}, DOI={10.4081/itjm.2019.1131}, abstractNote={<p>We describe a case of a 76-year-old woman who presented to the Emergency Department with right lower limb pain after a fall. One hour after the admission to the Emergency Department, the patient presented all the signs and symptoms of acute limb ischemia. The patient underwent contrast-enhanced computed tomographic scan of abdomen and right lower limb that showed a large abdominal lesion suggestive of ovarian cancer compressing the right common iliac artery and a visible thrombus and ruptured plaque in this artery. We hypothesized that the acute limb ischemia caused by thrombosis<em> in situ</em> arose from acute plaque rupture probably due to the impact of the large abdominal mass on the artery during patient’s fall.</p>}, number={3}, journal={Italian Journal of Medicine}, author={Carlino, Maria Viviana and Ieranò, Paola and Venafro, Mario and Cimmino, Claudia Sara and Mancusi, Costantino and Lassandro, Francesco and Angelini, Pierluigi and Sforza, Alfonso and Guarino, Mario}, year={2019}, month={Sep.}, pages={185–186} }