CASE REPORTS   

International Angiology 2004 June;23(2):189-91

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language: English

A renal artery aneurysm incidentally found at operation. Should it be resected?

Matsagas M. I., Mitsis M., Batsis C., Rigopoulos C., Kappas A. M.

Department of Surgery, Medical School, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

A rare case of a ­patient with a rup­tured abdom­i­nal aor­tic aneu­rysm (AAA) and an inci­den­tal­ly found left renal ­artery aneu­rysm (RAA) is pre­sent­ed. Suc­cess­ful ­repair of both aneu­rysms was simul­ta­ne­ous­ly per­formed. The indi­ca­tions for such a sur­gi­cal ­approach are also dis­cussed.