SPONTANEOUS RUPTURE OF LEFT AURICLE.

Spontaneous left external iliac vein rupture

We report a 72-year-old female patient with spontaneous rupture of the left external iliac vein. She visited our hospital for abdominal and back pain. She had the abnormal finding of hemoperitoneum. We performed an emergency operation with diagnosis of left ovarian cyst rupture though she suffered from spontaneous rupture of the left external iliac vein. This case provides insight to the experi...

Angiomyxoma of the Left Auricle

Primary tumours of the heart are uncommon. Various authors estimated their frequency at autopsy as follows: Rand and Sachs (1943), o.5 per cent.; Straus and Merliss (I945), 0.0017 per cent.; Lymburner (1934), o.6I per cent. About three-quarters are benign and about half of the benign tumours are the so-called myxomas. Approximately 70 per cent. of these myxomas arise in the left auricle in the ...

Spontaneous rupture of a dissection of the left ovarian artery.

A 53-year-old female was suddenly hospitalized with acute left lateral abdominal pain. There was no history of trauma to the abdomen. She had received no abdominal operation. X-ray showed a soft tissue shadow in the left flank which displaced the bowel shadows medially. Plain abdominal CT showed a left retroperitoneal hematoma. Dynamic abdominal CT showed an outflow of medium from a blood vesse...

[Mass thrombus of the left auricle].

Spontaneous rupture of a left main coronary artery aneurysm.

We report a case of left main coronary artery (LMCA) aneurysm rupture while the patient was hospitalized and immediately after imaging with 2 noninvasive cardiac modalities. An 85-year-old man with history of atrial fibrillation, prostate cancer, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia presented with sudden lightheadedness, chest pressure, and junctional bradycardia (heart rate, 40 bpm). He was admitt...