title: Ask the doctor. In a previous issue, you discussed abdominal aortic aneurysms. My uncle was just diagnosed with a thoracic aortic aneurysm. How is this type of aneurysm different?
authors.forename: Deepak L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Bhatt
mesh_terms: D017544:Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal / Q000145:classification* / Q000473:pathology; D017545:Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic / Q000145:classification* / Q000473:pathology; D001021:Aortic Valve / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans