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Chronic contained abdominal aortic aneurysm rupture causing vertebral erosion

Author(s) -

Tran Thuy Nguyen,

Ngoc-Thanh Le,

Quoc-Hung Doan

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

asian cardiovascular and thoracic annals

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.203

H-Index - 27

eISSN - 1816-5370

pISSN - 0218-4923

DOI - 10.1177/0218492318773237

Subject(s) - medicine , abdominal aortic aneurysm , expansive , radiology , back pain , aneurysm , aortic aneurysm , gold standard (test) , abdominal pain , aortic rupture , abdominal mass , computed tomography , surgery , pathology , compressive strength , materials science , alternative medicine , composite material

Erosion of vertebral bodies by an abdominal aortic aneurysm is extremely rare. Chronic contained rupture can cause difficulties in diagnosis because there are many clinical presentations: back pain, sciatic pain, or an expansive abdominal mass. Computed tomography is the gold-standard diagnostic tool. We report the case of a 49-year-old man who suffered from back pain because of a chronic ruptured aortic aneurysm.

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