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Abdominal aortic aneurysm in Behçet's disease: treatment with endovascular stent graft
S Erpenbach1, I P Arlart, C Tremmel-Lehnert
1Radiologisches Institut, Katharinenhospital, 70174 Stuttgart, Germany. s.erpenbach@katharinenhospital.de
European Radiology
|December 6, 2001
Abstract:
A case of acute rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm in a patient with Behçet's disease is reported. The patient was successfully treated by implantation of an endovascular stent graft. The preinterventional diagnostic procedures and the postinterventional follow-up are described and the benefit and risk vs open surgery is discussed.