title: [The persistent sciatic artery aneurysm. A rare and painful buttock mass].
abstract: The persistent sciatic artery is a rare cause of painful buttock mass with L5-S1 radicular signs. A 56-year-old man presents a right painful buttock mass with L5-S1 radicular symptoms for 3 years. The surgical exploration found a pulsatile vascular mass like a persistent sciatic artery aneurysm. This vascular pathology is a misunderstood embryogenesis anomaly. The treatment aims to avoid serious complications. This pathology must be known from plastic surgeon.
authors.affiliation: Service de chirurgie de la main et de chirurgie plastique et réparatrice des membres, hôpital de la Conception, centre hospitalo-universitaire de Marseille, 147 boulevard Baille, Marseille, France. antoine.alliez@gmail.com
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Alliez
authors.forename: A-M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Gay
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Prost
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Legre
mesh_terms: D000783:Aneurysm / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation; D002081:Buttocks / Q000098:blood supply*; D059350:Chronic Pain / Q000209:etiology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005263:Femoral Artery / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007083:Iliac Artery / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000473:pathology; D018810:Magnetic Resonance Angiography; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011843:Radiculopathy / Q000209:etiology*; D012584:Sciatic Nerve / Q000098:blood supply*
keywords: Aneurysm; Anévrisme; Artère sciatique persistante; Buttock; Fesse; L5-S1 radiculalgy; Mass; Masse; Nerf sciatique; Persistent sciatic artery; Radiculalgie L5-S1; Schwanoma; Schwanome; Sciatic nerve; Tumeur; Tumor