[Stent implantation in solitary aneurysm of the common iliac artery].

A 56-year-old man had intermittent claudication in the right leg for 11 months, gradually worsening of late. Digital subtraction angiography demonstrated an aneurysm, 8 x 2.5 cm, of the right common iliac artery and 70% stenosis of the right external iliac artery. As the patient refused full surgical intervention the aneurysm was treated by the insertion of two exactly adjoining wall stents (diameter 9 mm, length 7 cm), and the arterial stenosis was balloon-dilated. One month after stent implantation the aneurysm had thrombosed outside of the stent and the stent lumen was being perfused normally. 6 months later the local findings were identically. The patient remained symptom-free. --The case illustrates that management of circumscribed aneurysms by stent implantation could well be an alternative to surgical treatment, as long as the stent can prevent enlargement and rupture of the aneurysm.