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Inflammatory aneurysm of the ascending aorta and aortic arch
1Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|July 1, 1997
Abstract:
Inflammatory aortic aneurysms are distinct clinical entities seen mostly in the infrarenal abdominal aorta and rarely in the descending thoracic aorta. We present the case of a 61-year-old woman with an inflammatory aortic aneurysm of the ascending aorta and aortic arch.