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Rapidly Expanding Infectious Aortic Aneurysm Caused by Perforated Colon Cancer
Taufiek Konrad Rajab1, Daniel E Rinewalt1, Michael Belkin1
1Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Abstract:
A 50-year-old male smoker presented with a perforated colon cancer and underwent an extended right colectomy. Feculent peritonitis was treated with empiric antibiotics. Postoperatively he developed severe back pain and rising leukocytosis. Serial computed tomography revealed a rapidly expanding infrarenal aortic aneurysm. He was urgently treated with extra-anatomic bypasses and aortic resection. No organisms grew from the resected aortic wall. He was discharged in stable condition, and the ileostomy was reversed 9 months later.
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