Successive Stages of Mycotic Aortic Arch Aneurysm Development

Walid Ghodbane; Matthias Kirsch

doi:10.12945/j.aorta.2015.14.055

Successive Stages of Mycotic Aortic Arch Aneurysm Development

Aorta (Stamford). 2015 Dec 1;3(6):199-200. doi: 10.12945/j.aorta.2015.14.055. eCollection 2015 Dec.

Authors

Walid Ghodbane¹, Matthias Kirsch¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Bichat Claude Bernard, Paris, France.

Abstract

An 81-year-old male presented with an abscessed tumor of the cecum and complicated by a mycotic aneurysm of the aortic arch. We present successive stages of mycotic aneurysm development as seen on serial computerized tomography scans.

Keywords: Aortic aneurysm; Computerized tomography.