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Spontaneous ruptured splenic artery aneurysm: a case report

Splenic artery aneurysms are rare. We discuss a case of a 58-year-old gentleman presenting with collapse and shock secondary to spontaneous splenic artery aneurysm rupture. Patient underwent laparotomy and splenectomy then discharged home within a week of presentation.

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Autores principales: Betal, Dibendu, Khangura, Jasdeep S, Swan, Peter J, Mehmet, Veysi
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2827072/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20181191
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7150
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author Betal, Dibendu
Khangura, Jasdeep S
Swan, Peter J
Mehmet, Veysi
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description Splenic artery aneurysms are rare. We discuss a case of a 58-year-old gentleman presenting with collapse and shock secondary to spontaneous splenic artery aneurysm rupture. Patient underwent laparotomy and splenectomy then discharged home within a week of presentation.
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spelling pubmed-28270722010-02-24 Spontaneous ruptured splenic artery aneurysm: a case report Betal, Dibendu Khangura, Jasdeep S Swan, Peter J Mehmet, Veysi Cases J Research article Splenic artery aneurysms are rare. We discuss a case of a 58-year-old gentleman presenting with collapse and shock secondary to spontaneous splenic artery aneurysm rupture. Patient underwent laparotomy and splenectomy then discharged home within a week of presentation. BioMed Central 2009-09-11 /pmc/articles/PMC2827072/ /pubmed/20181191 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7150 Text en Copyright ©2009 Betal et al.; licensee Cases Network Ltd. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Betal, Dibendu
Khangura, Jasdeep S
Swan, Peter J
Mehmet, Veysi
Spontaneous ruptured splenic artery aneurysm: a case report
title Spontaneous ruptured splenic artery aneurysm: a case report
title_full Spontaneous ruptured splenic artery aneurysm: a case report
title_fullStr Spontaneous ruptured splenic artery aneurysm: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Spontaneous ruptured splenic artery aneurysm: a case report
title_short Spontaneous ruptured splenic artery aneurysm: a case report
title_sort spontaneous ruptured splenic artery aneurysm: a case report
topic Research article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2827072/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20181191
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7150
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