title: An iliac arterial pseudoaneurysm diagnosed 40 years after suffering blunt trauma.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  A chronic iliac arterial pseudoaneurysm caused by blunt trauma is very rare.
  
  
  METHODS
  The patient had gunshot wound in the right thigh and blunt trauma 40 years earlier. An abdominal computed tomography revealed the presence of a right iliac arterial pseudoaneurysm, and we successfully treated the pseudoaneurysm by resection and in situ reconstruction with a bifurcated vascular prosthesis.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We herein present a rare case of a pseudoaneurysm of the right iliac artery diagnosed decades after blunt trauma.
authors.affiliation: Department of Vascular Surgery, Saiseikai Yahata General Hospital, 5-9-27 Haruno-machi, Yahatahigashi-ku, Kitakyushu, 805-8527, Japan. aguntani@yahoo.co.jp.
authors.forename: Atsushi
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4574-7143
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Guntani
authors.affiliation: Department of Vascular Surgery, Saiseikai Yahata General Hospital, 5-9-27 Haruno-machi, Yahatahigashi-ku, Kitakyushu, 805-8527, Japan.
authors.forename: Eisuke
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kawakubo
authors.affiliation: Department of Vascular Surgery, Saiseikai Yahata General Hospital, 5-9-27 Haruno-machi, Yahatahigashi-ku, Kitakyushu, 805-8527, Japan.
authors.forename: Shinsuke
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mii
keywords: Blunt trauma; Chronic course; Iliac arterial pseudoaneurysm