Intraluminal calcification of the abdominal aorta

A patient who had no evidence of atherosclerotic disease and had never been hypertensive, presented with symptoms usually associated with gallstone di sease. A large intraluminal calcification in the juxtarenal aorta was found to be the probable cause of these symptoms. The aorta was otherwise free o f atherosclerotic changes. Although it could not be identified with certain ty, this calcification could have developed secondary to a single ulcerated atheroma.