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Case Reports
. 2005 Jul 20;102(3):537-8.
doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2004.07.007. Epub 2004 Nov 23.

Emergency endovascular treatment of a ruptured thoracic aneurysm discovered as a back pulsatile mass

Frédéric Collart, Francois Kerbaul, Bertrand Jop, Pierre-Edouard Magnan, Jean-Michel Bartoli
Case Reports

Emergency endovascular treatment of a ruptured thoracic aneurysm discovered as a back pulsatile mass

Frédéric Collart et al. Int J Cardiol. .

Abstract

We report a case of a 65-year-old patient admitted in emergency for a sudden chest pain associated with a pulsatile mass of the back. The CT scan showed a ruptured dissecting aneurysm involving the chest wall. The patient was treated in emergency with an endovascular-covered prosthesis with a favorable outcome.

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