[Acute upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage caused by ruptured aneurysm of the right gastroepiploic artery].

Visceral aneurysms are very rare (0.1% in autopsy-statistics). In our own review of literature we have found only 9 described cases of an aneurysm of the gastroepiploic artery. In the presented case an aneurysm was found when the patient developed an acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Due to the high risk of rupture (20% of all visceral aneurysms), which can be either intraperitoneally, intraluminally or into the satellite vein, the treatment should be surgically on finding.