Hepatic artery aneurysm, an unusual cause of obstructive jaundice: MR cholangiography findings.
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.
Mazziotti
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Institute of Radiological Sciences, Policlinico G. Martino, University of Messina, Messina, 98100 Italy.
Blandino
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Gaeta
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Lamberto
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Vinci
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Ascenti
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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