Kontopodis Nikolaos, Ioannou Christos V
Vascular Surgery Unit, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital of Heraklion, Heraklion, Greece.
Aorta (Stamford). 2020 Dec;8(6):184-186. doi: 10.1055/s-0040-1715468. Epub 2021 Mar 24.
We describe a patient with contained aortic rupture due to perforation from a protruding lumbar osteophyte, who was treated by open surgery. This case underlines that less common aortic pathologies are possible, which require a high suspicion index to be diagnosed.