A Surprising Cause of Contained Aortic Rupture: Perforation from a Lumbar Osteophyte

We describe a patient with contained aortic rupture due to perforation from a protruding lumbar osteophyte, who was treated by open surgery. This case underlines that less common aortic pathologies are possible, which require a high suspicion index to be diagnosed.

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Autores principales: Kontopodis, Nikolaos, Ioannou, Christos V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc. 2021
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8043809/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33761564
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0040-1715468
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spelling pubmed-80438092021-04-15 A Surprising Cause of Contained Aortic Rupture: Perforation from a Lumbar Osteophyte Kontopodis, Nikolaos Ioannou, Christos V. Aorta (Stamford) We describe a patient with contained aortic rupture due to perforation from a protruding lumbar osteophyte, who was treated by open surgery. This case underlines that less common aortic pathologies are possible, which require a high suspicion index to be diagnosed. Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc. 2021-03-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8043809/ /pubmed/33761564 http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0040-1715468 Text en The Author(s). This is an open access article published by Thieme under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, permitting unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction so long as the original work is properly cited. ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short A Surprising Cause of Contained Aortic Rupture: Perforation from a Lumbar Osteophyte
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