Unusual angiographic technic in a ruptured aortic aneurysm

Wenz, W.; Halbfass, H.J.

Der Radiologe 18(4): 148-149

1978


ISSN/ISBN: 0033-832X
PMID: 644044
Document Number: 138764
In a 65-year-old patient with amputation of both legs, a life-threatening acute abdominal hemorrhage necessitates aortography. Following surgical dissection of the right femoral artery a catheter could be inserted through the thrombosed vessel into the aortic lumen. This approach made the diagnosis of a perforated aortic aneurysm by angiography possible.

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