An iliac arterial pseudoaneurysm diagnosed 40 years after suffering blunt trauma
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BACKGROUND A chronic iliac arterial pseudoaneurysm caused by blunt trauma is very rare. CASE PRESENTATION The patient had gunshot wound in the right thigh and blunt trauma 40 years earlier. An abdominal computed tomography revealed the presence of a right iliac arterial pseudoaneurysm, and we successfully treated the pseudoaneurysm by resection and in situ reconstruction with a bifurcated vascular prosthesis. CONCLUSIONS We herein present a rare case of a pseudoaneurysm of the right iliac artery diagnosed decades after blunt trauma.
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