J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.
ISSN 1880-1129

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J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.. 84(12): 1291-1295, 1983

Original article

ISOLATED ANEURYSM OF THE EXTERNAL ILIAC ARTERY CAUSED BY NON-SPECIFIC ANGIITIS

Second Department of Surgery, Okayama University Medical School, Okayama, Japan
*) Department of Obstetricsa nd Gynecology, Okayama University Medical School, Okayama, Japan
**) Second Department of Pathology, Okayama University Medical School, Okayama, Japan

Yoshiyuki Usui, Osamu Ishikawa, Kazutoyo Shirakawa, Yasuhiro Shimizu, Hatsuzo Uchida, Shigeru Teramoto, Yoshiyasu Nakagiri*), Toshihiro Fujita**)

Isolated aneurysm of the iliac artery is considered to be a rare disorder, although iliac aneurysm associated with abdominal aortic aneurysm is more common. Its clinical diagnosis is difficult, because symptoms are absent if an aneurysm is small, and because symptoms often mimic urogenital, neurological or gastrointestinal diseases if an aneurysm grows large without repture. We reported a 40-year-old woman with isolated aneurysm of the left external iliac artery caused by giant cell arteritis, and surgically treated with success.

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