True Renal-Artery Aneurysm

ANEURYSM of the renal artery is an unusual lesion, only 90 cases having been reported in the world literature. Excellent reviews of the subject have been presented by Mathé1 (1932), Howard, Suby and Harberson2 (1941), Lowsley and Cannon3 (1943) and Lazarus and Marks4 (1944). The case reported below brings the total to 91.EtiologyRenal-artery aneurysm may be "true" or "false," the latter constituting only 15 per cent of the total and representing essentially a spontaneously controlled hemorrhage secondary to rupture of the artery. A true aneurysm contains in its wall all the elements of the arterial wall and is . . .