title: Multiple penetrating atherosclerotic ulcers of the aorta: report of a case.
abstract: A 69-year-old hypertensive man who had 7 pseudoaneurysms caused by penetrating atherosclerotic ulcers underwent 2-staged endovascular grafting in the thoracic and thoracoabdominal aorta and a conventional graft replacement of the abdominal aorta. He had an uneventful postoperative course; follow-up computed tomography demonstrated that all aneurysmal lesions treated by endovascular grafting completely disappeared. He has been free from any aortic events 20 months after the last surgery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-2, Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0017, Japan. ytsuji@med.kobe-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Yoshihiko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tsuji
authors.forename: Yutaka
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Okita
authors.forename: Koji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sugimoto
authors.forename: Teruo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yamashita
authors.forename: Yutaka
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hino
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: Takanori
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Taniguchi
authors.forename: Masamichi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Matsumori
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D017541:Aneurysm, False / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D017544:Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D017545:Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D001161:Arteriosclerosis / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014456:Ulcer / Q000150:complications*; D018084:Ultrasonography, Interventional; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures