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Giant aneurysm of renal artery: surgical management
Lokeswara Rao Sajja1, Benjaram Sitaram Reddy, Sarbeswar Sahariah
1Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Asian Cardiovascular & Thoracic Annals
|June 25, 2002
Abstract:
Giant aneurysm of the renal artery is rare even though renal artery aneurysms are diagnosed more often since the introduction of abdominal ultrasonography and selective renal arteriography. A 52-year-old man with an aneurysm of the left renal artery measuring 16 x 13 x 10 cm presented with features of an expanding aneurysm. He underwent resection of the aneurysm and a left nephrectomy.