title: Isolated periaortitis: clinical and imaging characteristics.
abstract: Chronic periaortitis includes a variety of conditions that have similar clinical and histopathological findings, and thus probably represents different manifestations of the same disease: idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis, perianeurysmal retroperitoneal fibrosis, and inflammatory abdominal aortic aneurysms. We describe the clinical and imaging characteristics of the nonaneurysmal form of chronic periaortitis, recognized as isolated periaortitis, in an adult male patient presented with low back pain.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Bnai-Zion Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel. raufzeina3@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Abdel-Rauf
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Zeina
authors.forename: Gleb
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Slobodin
authors.forename: Slobodin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gleb
authors.forename: Jochanan E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Naschitz
authors.forename: Zeev
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Loberman
authors.forename: Elisha
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Barmeir
mesh_terms: D001012:Aorta, Abdominal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D001025:Aortitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D005938:Glucocorticoids / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D007166:Immunosuppressive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D017116:Low Back Pain / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D008727:Methotrexate / Q000627:therapeutic use; D008875:Middle Aged; D011241:Prednisone / Q000627:therapeutic use; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D005938:Glucocorticoids; D007166:Immunosuppressive Agents; D011241:Prednisone; D008727:Methotrexate