Artigo Acesso aberto Revisado por pares

Ruptured left gastroepiploic artery aneurysm — a diagnostic dilemma

2007; Springer Science+Business Media; Volume: 69; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/s12262-007-0021-5

ISSN

0972-2068

Autores

Amith Kumar Choudhury, Shabuddin Khan, Graham Hoadley, Steve C. Pettit,

Tópico(s)

Aortic aneurysm repair treatments

Resumo

We report a case of a 63-year-old man who presented to Accident and Emergency department (A&E) with dizzy spells and falls of sudden onset, without any obvious cardiac or vestibular abnormality. He had significant co-morbidity and rupture of the left gastroepiploic artery aneurysm. The atypical presentation and rarity of the case posed a diagnostic dilemma. Once the diagnosis was established by computerised tomography (CT), treatment was uncomplicated with good recovery.

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