¹Clinic of Cardiovascular Surgery Atatürk Training and Research Hospital,
²Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Yüzüncü Yıl University Faculty of Medicine, Van DOI : 10.9739/uvcd.2013-37833 Vascular injuries from penetrating or blunt traumas frequently threaten the extremity and even may be life-threatening, necessitating emergent treatment. Management of these pati- ents aim to save the extremity and the patient"s life. Standard surgical incisions may be hard to be applied in trauma patients since the wounds and traumatic regions differ in each patient. Therefo- re, to make surgical management easier, surgical incisions should be modified according to the lo- calization of the injury. We present a 38-year-old trauma patient with a pistol shot injury at the popliteal region. We performed surgery via posterior popliteal approach since there was a big tis- sue defect in this region together with popliteal artery and vein interruption. Keywords : Popliteal artery; popliteal vein; penetrating wounds; gun shot wound