TORTUOUS AND ABERRANT EXTERNAL ILIAC ARTERY PRECLUDING RADICAL RETROPUBIC PROSTATECTOMY FOR PROSTATE-CANCER

A sixty-eight-year-old black man with clinical Stage A1 (T1a) adenocar cinoma of the prostate was found to have a tortuous and redundant left external iliac artery directly overlying the superior aspect of the p rostate gland. The location of this blood vessel precluded radical ret ropubic prostatectomy. To our knowledge, this is the first reported ex ample of this clinical situation. Computer-generated three-dimensional imaging from the computed tomography scan allowed accurate assessment of the vascular anomaly.