title: Percutaneous treatment of a ruptured superior mesenteric artery aneurysm in a child.
abstract: Splanchnic artery aneurysms are very rare in children. We report a 10-year-old girl with a large atraumatic ruptured superior mesenteric artery aneurysm that was considered inoperable. She was ultimately treated with two percutaneous US-guided thrombin injections, which led to complete occlusion of the aneurysm. The aetiology of the aneurysm remained unclear, but a family history was suggestive of a congenital connective tissue disease such as Ehlers-Danlos syndrome subtype IV.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Klinikum Augsburg, Stenglinstrasse 2, 86156 Augsburg, Germany. susanne_oechsle@yahoo.de
authors.forename: Susanne
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Oechsle
authors.forename: Kurt
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Vollert
authors.forename: Wolfgang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Buecklein
authors.forename: Wolfgang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Michl
authors.forename: Frank W
authors.initials: FW
authors.lastname: Roemer
mesh_terms: D017542:Aneurysm, Ruptured / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000209:etiology; D000792:Angiography; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004535:Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D017538:Mesenteric Artery, Superior; D013917:Thrombin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D018084:Ultrasonography, Interventional
chemical_list: D013917:Thrombin