INTERCOSTAL ARTERY ANEURYSM ASSOCIATED WITH COARCTATION OF THE AORTA - SPECIFIC FINDING ON MR-IMAGING

Authors
YAMAGUCHI T STANFORD W LANG EV
Citation
T. Yamaguchi et al., INTERCOSTAL ARTERY ANEURYSM ASSOCIATED WITH COARCTATION OF THE AORTA - SPECIFIC FINDING ON MR-IMAGING, International journal of cardiac imaging, 13(4), 1997, pp. 357-358
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Cardiac & Cardiovascular System","Radiology,Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Journal title
International journal of cardiac imaging → ACNP
ISSN journal
01679899
Volume
13
Issue
4
Year of publication
1997
Pages
357 - 358
Database
ISI
SICI code
0167-9899(1997)13:4<357:IAAAWC>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
Aneurysm formation has been described in association with aortic coarc tation in approximately 10% of patients. The incidence increases with age and reaches 42% in patients over 40 pears of age. To our knowledge , only six radiologic reports have described aortic coarctation in ass ociation with an intercostal artery aneurysm and none of these reports has described an intercostal artery entering the aneurysm. We present a case in which MR imaging helped identify this unusual abnormality.