A case of Turner's syndrome is described associated with bicuspid aortic stenosis and fatal rupture of a thoracic dissecting aortic aneurysm. Histology of the aneurysm showed severe cystic medial necrosis. This association has not been previously described in the absence of coarctation. In view of the possibility of surgical repair, dissecting aortic aneurysm should be considered in all patient...

We report the case of an 86-year-old man referred for abdominal pain and ECG signs of inferior myocardial infarction. Transthoracic, transoesophageal and contrast echocardiographs showed a septal intra-mural haematoma, dissecting the right ventricle wall and partially obliterating the right ventricle lumen. A patent communication with left ventricle with extensive wall thrombosis was present at...

Cotyledonoid leiomyoma is very rarely described variant of benign uterine leiomyoma. Roth et al. [1] reported a series of four cases of leiomyoma characterized by alarming extra uterine growth with a dissecting myometrial component. Because of its striking resemblance to placenta, the term cotyledonoid dissecting leiomyoma was coined for this peculiar variant. It is also called Sternberg Tumor ...

The literature has been reviewed, and 58 autopsied cases of dissecting aneurysm of the aorta observed at the Los Angeles County Hospital over a ten year period have been carefully studied. Clinical-pathologic correlation has been attempted whenever possible, with emphasis on diagnostic features. The increasing incidence of accurate diagnosis of dissecting aneurysm has been noted, and it is hope...

Dissecting aneurysm is the cause of about ona in a hundred of sudden deaths and about one in four hundred of all hospital deaths. Men are affected much more commonly than women in a proportion of between two and three to one, except in extreme old age when the sex difference is less, partly because there are more old women than old men. Dissecting aneurysm can occur at any age. The heaviest inc...

To know the characteristics of mortality from aortic aneurysms in Japan, the age-adjusted and age-specific mortality rates of the diseases were calculated based on the Vital Statistics of Japan published from the Statistics and Information Department, Minister's Secretariat, Ministry of Health and Welfare. The overall age-adjusted mortality rate increased 24.8-fold from 0.43 to 10.98 per 100,00...

FOR obvious reasons, separation of the entities of myocardial infarction and dissecting aneurysm of the thoracic aorta has often presented a difficult and perplexing problem in clinical medicine. With the advent of serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (SGOT) determination as a diagnostic measure in the diagnosis of myocardial infarction, it has been suggested' that this procedure may be of h...

Cervical cephalic dissections are uncommon acute disruptions of the arterial wall occurring predominantly in middle-aged women. Clinically, most patients present with unilateral headache, oculosympathetic palsy, or ischemic neurologic symptoms. Usually, a single internal carotid artery, predominantly the right, is affected, but simultaneous multivessel dissections are evident in about one-third...

PRACTICAL ANATOMY. By W. E. Le Gros Clark. Baltimore, The \XTilliams & Wilkins Company, 1949. 473 pp. $6.00. The second edition of this dissecting manual remains unaltered in scope. Revisions, additions, and the use of color have rendered its illustrations one of the main features of this new edition. The order of dissection is slightly different from that which is often adopted; however, the s...

We report a patient with a ruptured vertebral artery (VA) dissecting aneurysm that was treated by internal trapping of the aneurysm and parent artery using detachable coils with subsequent antegrade recanalization of occluded vertebral artery during the follow-up period. A 38-year-old man was admitted with a ruptured right VA dissecting aneurysm just distal to origin of right posterior inferior...