title: [Symptomatic calcified splenic artery aneurysm: case report].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Although the third most common aneurysm within the abdomen, after aneurysms of the aorta and iliac arteries, splenic artery aneurysms are rare, but not exceptionally. Owing to new imaging techniques, they have been discovered with increasing frequency.
  
  
  METHODS
  Authors present a 47-year-old woman, multipara, who presented with left upper abdominal pain in whom X-ray showed a calcified ring in the area of distal pancreas. Selective angiography confirmed a splenic artery aneurysm of its proximal part. During an open surgery the aneurysm was excised (aneurismectomy) without immediate, early or late complications. The patient became symptom-free.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In patients, particularly women, the multiparas who present with epigastric or left upper abdominal pain of unknown aetiology, splenic artery aneurysm has to be taken into account. Further diagnostic procedures such as plain X-ray and selective angiography in suspected cases should be performed. Surgery or other treatment modalities are to be seriously considered in all patients, particularly in those with increased risk of rupture.
authors.forename: Radoje
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Čolović
authors.forename: Nataša
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Čolović
authors.forename: Nikica
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Grubor
authors.forename: Marko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kaitović
mesh_terms: D000783:Aneurysm / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D013157:Splenic Artery