title: Congenital hepatic artery aneurysm: a case report in early infancy.
abstract: Hepatic artery aneurysm in children is a very unusual pathologic entity. As most patients with this anomaly are asymptomatic, the diagnosis is usually made as an incidental finding on imaging studies performed for other reasons. Here, we report a 35-day-old infant with hepatic artery aneurysm, which was diagnosed accidentally as a liver mass during echocardiography. Considering the age of diagnosis, she most likely had a congenital type of hepatic artery aneurysm. To the best of our knowledge, this is the youngest case to be reported in the literature.
authors.affiliation: Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Gastroenterohepatology Research Center, Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran. dehghanism@sums.ac.ir
authors.forename: Seyed Mohsen
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Dehghani
authors.forename: Mahmood
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Haghighat
authors.forename: Mohammad Hadi
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Imanieh
authors.forename: Mohammad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Borzooei
authors.forename: Ali Reza
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Rasekhi
mesh_terms: D000783:Aneurysm / Q000151:congenital* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004452:Echocardiography; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006499:Hepatic Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D033162:Incidental Findings; D007223:Infant; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016312:Treatment Refusal