Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm in the Presence of Mediastinal and Retroperitoneal Fibrosis
Received 13 December 2007; received in revised form 25 February 2008; accepted 10 March 2008.
Inflammatory aneurysms of thoracic aorta are rare. Of all the aneurysms, only 5–10% are inflammatory in nature and are almost exclusively confined to the infrarenal segment of the aorta. We hereby present a patient with a large inflammatory aneurysm involving the thoracic aorta in association with mediastinal fibrosis and idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis.
aUniversity of Western Australia, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia
bDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Westmead Hospital, Wentworthville, NSW 2145, Australia
cDepartment of Vascular Surgery, Westmead Hospital, Wentworthville, NSW 2145, Australia
Corresponding author at: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia. Tel.: +61 8 9346 3333; fax: +61 8 9346 2344.
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