RE: Hemangiopericytoma of the Greater Omentum: A Potential Imaging Pitfall and Cause of Repeatedly Unsuccessful Angiographic Embolization
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We commend Kulkarni et al. (1) on their description of a rare case of aberrant splenic artery aneurysm treated with a combination of stent graft and coil embolization. Indeed, aneurysm of splenic artery is a protean disease as for the origin, location, size and clinical manifestations. Furthermore, what appears to be initially a splenic aneurysm can exceptionally turn out to be another vascular lesion as happened to us. In fact, a 74-year-old man with a history of prostate cancer was recently diagnosed as having an aneurysm of 1.7 x 2 cm arising from a short gastric artery on a surveillance CT scan (Fig. 1). Superselective arteriography confirmed the
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