Aortic Pseudoaneurysm due to Simple Vertebral Compression Fracture Treated with Conservative Management

Hirohito Ishii; Kunihide Nakamura; Eisaku Nakamura; George Endo; Koji Furukawa; Yukie Shirasaki; Hiroki Mori

doi:10.3400/avd.cr.16-00030

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Aortic Pseudoaneurysm due to Simple Vertebral Compression Fracture Treated with Conservative Management

Hirohito Ishii, Kunihide Nakamura, Eisaku Nakamura, George Endo, Koji Furukawa, Yukie Shirasaki, Hiroki Mori

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Keywords: aortic pseudoaneurysm, compression fracture, conservative management

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2016 Volume 9 Issue 4 Pages 349-351

DOI https://doi.org/10.3400/avd.cr.16-00030

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Abstract

Blunt aortic injures are rarely associated with minimal trauma. We present a 78-year-old man with an aortic pseudoaneurysm resulting from a simple vertebral compression fracture, which was conservatively managed. He was diagnosed with a compression fracture from a minor fall 10 days previously, and fortuitously he visited the hospital after which follow-up computed tomography (CT) for previous multiple aortic surgeries was performed. The enhanced CT revealed a pseudoaneurysm on the abdominal aorta, which was bleeding from a pinhole perforation. He was conservatively treated and follow-up CT 9 months later revealed that the pseudoaneurysm had disappeared.

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