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Giant thoracic aneurysm with vertebral osteolysis: possible cause of hypercalcemia?

Author(s) -

Thierry Carrel,

Verena Eigenmann,

Jürg Schmidli

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

european journal of cardio-thoracic surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.303

H-Index - 133

eISSN - 1873-734X

pISSN - 1010-7940

DOI - 10.1016/j.ejcts.2009.01.047

Subject(s) - medicine , dysphagia , radiology , stomach , osteolysis , aneurysm , vertebral body , abdominal aortic aneurysm , surgery

A 72-year-old patient suffering from dyspnea and dysphagia. Severely elevated level of serum calcium (4.75 mmol/l). Abnormal chest X-ray. CT scan showed a 14 cm thoraco-abdominal aneurysm compressing LV and stomach (Fig. 1a). After aortic replacement there was normalization of hypercalcemia which was most probably caused by pressureinduced destruction of the vertebral body (Fig. 1b). www.elsevier.com/locate/ejcts European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery 35 (2009) 904

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