title: Hepatic artery aneurysm, an unusual cause of obstructive jaundice: MR cholangiography findings.
abstract: Hepatic artery aneurysms are rare vascular lesions, often with a nonspecific clinical presentation, and difficult to diagnose before rupture. We report the case of a patient with obstructive jaundice caused by a compression on the right biliary duct by a right hepatic artery aneurysm in which the diagnosis was suggested by magnetic resonance cholangiography and confirmed by Doppler sonography and preoperative digital subtraction angiography.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Radiological Sciences, Policlinico G. Martino, University of Messina, Messina, 98100 Italy.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mazziotti
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Blandino
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gaeta
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lamberto
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Vinci
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ascenti
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000783:Aneurysm / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D015901:Angiography, Digital Subtraction; D005260:Female; D006499:Hepatic Artery; D006801:Humans; D041781:Jaundice, Obstructive / Q000209:etiology*; D018810:Magnetic Resonance Angiography; D018615:Ultrasonography, Doppler, Color