title: Angiography as an aid in extra-enteric gastrointestinal bleeding due to visceral artery aneurysm.
abstract: Three unusual patients with visceral artery aneurysms involving the hepatic artery, inferior pancreaticoduodenal artery, and a mesenteric branch artery are presented. Each of these lesions is unusual and all were diagnosed preoperatively. Surgical intervention was planned on the basis of angiography. In two patients with hypovolemia a simple diagnostic approach employing emergency selective angiography was formulated and successfully used.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000783:Aneurysm / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D000792:Angiography; D004386:Duodenum / Q000098:blood supply*; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006499:Hepatic Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008638:Mesenteric Arteries / Q000601:surgery; D008875:Middle Aged; D010179:Pancreas / Q000098:blood supply*; D010185:Pancreatic Fistula / Q000209:etiology; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous; D012501:Saphenous Vein / Q000637:transplantation; D012769:Shock / Q000209:etiology