TRAUMATIC ABDOMINAL AORTIC PSEUDOANEURYSM CAUSING BILIARY OBSTRUCTION- A CASE-REPORT AND REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE

A traumatic pseudoaneurysm of the suprarenal abdominal aorta was diagn osed in a 58-year-old man 32 years after he received a gunshot wound t o the abdomen. Epigastric pain and obstructive jaundice were the prese nting symptoms. Repair was performed by intraluminal polytetrafluoroet hylene patch aortoplasty with resolution of the biliary obstruction. T he literature on traumatic abdominal aortic pseudoaneurysm is reviewed and reveals that this report is the first to describe biliary obstruc tion caused by such a lesion.