title: Isolated abdominal aortic dissection.
abstract: Isolated acute abdominal aortic dissection is a rare condition, accounting for 1.3% of all aortic dissections. It may be classified as iatrogenic, traumatic or spontaneous. To date, only 92 patients have been reported in western literature. All the reports were based on the Caucasian population, and the mean age according to the International Registry of Acute abdominal aortic dissection (IRAD) was 67.7 ± 13.3 years. We report a case of an isolated infrarenal abdominal aortic dissection in a middle age Asian man, and our subsequent management.
authors: Department of General Surgery, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore.
authors: Ee Ling Serene
authors: EL
authors: Tang
authors: Choon Seng
authors: CS
authors: Chong
authors: Sriram
authors: S
authors: Narayanan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001012:Aorta, Abdominal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D001019:Aortic Rupture / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed