title: Rapidly Expanding Infectious Aortic Aneurysm Caused by Perforated Colon Cancer.
abstract: A 50-year-old male smoker presented with a perforated colon cancer and underwent an extended right colectomy. Feculent peritonitis was treated with empiric antibiotics. Postoperatively he developed severe back pain and rising leukocytosis. Serial computed tomography revealed a rapidly expanding infrarenal aortic aneurysm. He was urgently treated with extra-anatomic bypasses and aortic resection. No organisms grew from the resected aortic wall. He was discharged in stable condition, and the ileostomy was reversed 9 months later.
authors.affiliation: Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: Taufiek Konrad
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Rajab
authors.affiliation: Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: Daniel E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Rinewalt
authors.affiliation: Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Belkin
authors.affiliation: Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: Joel E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Goldberg
authors.affiliation: Changzheng Hospital and Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Haiyang
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhou
keywords: Aneurysm; Aorta; Colon cancer; Infected aortic aneurysm; Inflammation