Huge Aneurysm of the Proper Hepatic Artery

Hepatic artery aneurysms are rarely diagnosed. It is mainly because of non specific symptoms. They are generally an incidental findings during imaging studies. They are usually detected in the sixth decade, predominantly in men. We report herein a case of an 80 year-old man with a huge hepatic arter...

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Autores principales: Attaoui, Mohamed Amine, Bayar, Rached, Mzoughi, Zeineb, Omrani, Sahir, Gharbi, Lassaad, Khalfallah, Mohamed Taher
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4943103/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27478583
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/cp.2016.846
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author Attaoui, Mohamed Amine
Bayar, Rached
Mzoughi, Zeineb
Omrani, Sahir
Gharbi, Lassaad
Khalfallah, Mohamed Taher
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description Hepatic artery aneurysms are rarely diagnosed. It is mainly because of non specific symptoms. They are generally an incidental findings during imaging studies. They are usually detected in the sixth decade, predominantly in men. We report herein a case of an 80 year-old man with a huge hepatic artery aneurysm revealed by abdominal pain and chronic anemia. It was treated by embolisation. Hepatic artery aneurysms are second among visceral aneurysms. They may cause abdominal pain, jaundice and hemorrhagic events.
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spelling pubmed-49431032016-07-29 Huge Aneurysm of the Proper Hepatic Artery Attaoui, Mohamed Amine Bayar, Rached Mzoughi, Zeineb Omrani, Sahir Gharbi, Lassaad Khalfallah, Mohamed Taher Clin Pract Case Report Hepatic artery aneurysms are rarely diagnosed. It is mainly because of non specific symptoms. They are generally an incidental findings during imaging studies. They are usually detected in the sixth decade, predominantly in men. We report herein a case of an 80 year-old man with a huge hepatic artery aneurysm revealed by abdominal pain and chronic anemia. It was treated by embolisation. Hepatic artery aneurysms are second among visceral aneurysms. They may cause abdominal pain, jaundice and hemorrhagic events. PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2016-06-17 /pmc/articles/PMC4943103/ /pubmed/27478583 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/cp.2016.846 Text en ©Copyright M.A. Attaoui et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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