LATE RESULT OF NEEDLING AN AORTIC ANEURISM

Hemothorax Revealing Aortic Aneurism and Aortic Dissection

Hemothorax caused by rupture of aortic aneurysm or aortic dissection is an uncommon manifestation and carries a high mortality rate. We report two cases of 75and 80-year-old men, who were referred to our department for exploration of a left pleural opacity. Thoracentesis produced a hemorrhagic fluid. The computed tomography scan revealed an aortic dissection type B of Stanford in the first case...

Rupture of an Aortic Aneurism into the Superior Vena Cava

By Alexander Bruce, M.D., F.R.C.P. Ed., Assistant Physician, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh ; and Lecturer on Pathology, Surgeons' Hall. Cases of this lesion are of such rare occurrence, that although a very valuable paper by Pepper and Griffith, who have collected and reviewed most of the previously recorded cases, has been published in the International Journal of the Medical Sciences for October...

Association of crossed renal ectopia and aortic aneurism. Case report.

OBJECTIVE Renal malformations are rare entities and rarely have clinical consequences. Crossed renal ectopia has an incidence of 1/2.000 autopsies. The association with aortic aneurysm is even more exceptional. METHODS We present our case and perform a bibliographic review. RESULTS To date and in our knowledge, seven cases of crossed renal ectopia associated with aortic aneurysm were descri...

Acute renal failure as a presentation of an aortocaval fistula associated with abdominal aortic aneurism.

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a successful repair of a giant abdominal aortic aneurism