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East and Central African Journal of Surgery
Association of Surgeons of East Africa and College of Surgeons of East Central and Southern Africa
ISSN: 1024-297X EISSN: 1024-297X
Vol. 18, No. 1, 2013, pp. 113-123
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Bioline Code: js13015
Full paper language: English
Document type: Research Article
Document available free of charge
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East and Central African Journal of Surgery, Vol. 18, No. 1, 2013, pp. 113-123
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False Aneurysms: Varied Presentations in General Surgery
Mekonnen, W. & Anderson, B.
Abstract
An aneurysm by definition is a permanent localized arterial dilation with 50 percent or
greater increase in size over the normal diameter of the affected artery. Aneurysms have
been classified as true or false (pseudo) aneurysms. True aneurysms involve all three
layers of the arterial wall (intima, media, & adventitia). A false or pseudo-aneurysm is a
collection of blood or hematoma which had leaked from a defect in the wall of an artery to
be later variably confined by the surrounding interstitial tissues. The varied presentations
of six patients with false aneurysms admitted and treated on General Surgical wards are
presented with the pertinent literature on the subject reviewed along with a review of the
records of patients that presented at Gondar University Hospital (GUH) with the diagnosis
of false aneurysm over a six years period.
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