Acute abdominal aortic aneurysm rupture presenting as transient paralysis of the lower legs: a case report.
This article describes the case of a 40-year-old man with transient paralysis of both legs as the major symptom of an acute abdominal aortic aneurysm rupture presumably due to the occlusion of blood flow to the conus medullaris.
Kamano
Shunya
S
Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
Yonezawa
Ikuho
I
Arai
Yasuhisa
Y
Iizuka
Yuou
Y
Kurosawa
Hisashi
H
D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D001019:Aortic Rupture / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D001416:Back Pain / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008297:Male; D010264:Paraplegia / Q000209:etiology*; D011859:Radiography; D016896:Treatment Outcome