HEMOTHORAX DUE TO RUPTURE OF ANEURYSM OF AORTA

Rupture of Aneurysm of Aorta

History oj the case.?A Hindu male, aged about 35 years, visited a prostitute at about 9 p.m. on 6th May, 1944. He fell down unconscious on the bed of the woman in her room. He was taken out of the room and placed on the verandah where he died immediately after. No marks of injury or violence could be detected on the dead body. The body was subsequently sent by the police for post-mortem examina...

Hemothorax due to rupture of a benign thymoma.

Non-traumatic hemothorax is rare and in the case we report was due to rupture of a benign thymoma. The clinical course of the patient suggested rapid intrathoracic bleeding and emergency surgery was required to make the correct diagnosis.

Haematemesis and melaena due to rupture of a saccular aneurysm of the aorta into the oesophagus.

A female patient, aged 63 years, was admitted as an emergency to Llandough Hospital on February i 6, 1959. She had had sudden severe pain below the lower end of the sternum and epigastrium while eating her evening meal eight days previously. The pain radiated through to the back and persisted throughout the night. The following day she vomited a small clot of blood and during the week before ad...

Rupture of aortic value secondary to aneurysm of ascending aorta.

Bilateral amaurosis due to brain aneurysm rupture.

Unidade de Neurocirurgia Endovascular do Serviço de Neurocirurgia do Hospital de Base de São José do Rio Preto, São José do Rio Preto SP, Brasil: Medical Student at Universidade de Marília, Marília SP, Brazil; MD, Neurosurgeon of Unit of Endovascular Neurosurgery at Hospital de Base de São José do Rio Preto, São José do Rio PretoSP, Brazil; MD, Fellow of Unit of Endovascular Neurosurgery at Hos...