Introduction:

civilian or domestic vascular traumas constitute a rare modality that is fundamentally associated with accidental issues. In these cases, bleeding can be profuse, even causing shock and death due to hypovolemia.

Case report:

here we describe a case of an adolescent who sustained a penetrating wire wound to the right anterolateral cervical region while mowing the lawn with a brushcutter. The actions of those who assisted him at the time stand out since they did not try to remove the wire which moved to the heart rate. He was referred to the emergency room and after a rapid clinical, radiological and ultrasound evaluation, he was admitted to the operating room in order to remove the wire during the surgical act with total carotid vascular control and raffia of the anterior and posterior face of the common carotid.

Discussion:

the possibility of having removed the foreign body without surgery and applying compression with eventual endovascular repair with a stent graft is discussed.

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