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A 49-year-old man presented with back pain caused by a rare chronic ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm eroding the vertebral bodies.
Case Report (n=1)
Highlights a rare presentation of chronic contained abdominal aortic aneurysm rupture causing vertebral erosion and presenting as back pain.
Consider chronic contained AAA rupture with vertebral erosion in atypical back pain; single case leaves open diagnostic prevalence and management.
Erosion of vertebral bodies by an abdominal aortic aneurysm is extremely rare. Chronic contained rupture can cause difficulties in diagnosis because there are many clinical presentations: back pain, sciatic pain, or an expansive abdominal mass. Computed tomography is the gold-standard diagnostic tool. We report the case of a 49-year-old man who suffered from back pain because of a chronic ruptured aortic aneurysm.
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Nguyen et al. (2018) conducted a case report in Chronic contained abdominal aortic aneurysm rupture (n=1). Chronic contained abdominal aortic aneurysm rupture was evaluated. A 49-year-old man presented with back pain caused by a rare chronic ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm eroding the vertebral bodies.
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