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Hepatic artery aneurysm (HAA) was first reported at autopsy in 1809, represents one fifth of visceral aneurysms and the mortality from spontaneous rupture is high in most of cases. We are reporting a case of an asymptomatic 48-year-old woman with an extrahepatic HAA, diagnosed initially and incidentally with abdominal ultrasonography, confirmed by...
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... scale abdominal US revealed one well-defined, rounded cystic masses measuring 4.5 cm in diameter in the region of the hepatic hilum, and Doppler US was per- formed to evaluate the vascularity associated with the le- sions revealed pulsatile flow within the lesions with a vascular origin (Figure 1). The findings suggested HAA, followed by a three-dimensional contrast-enhanced MRI angiography ( Figure 2) and contrast angiography which confirmed the diagnosis (Figure 3). The personal clinical history reported that open cholecystectomy was carried out 20 years ago. ...
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