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Ruptured renal artery aneurysm due to Behçet's disease

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We describe a patient with Behçet's disease who developed multiple aneurysms and retroperitoneal hemorrhage due to rupture of a renal artery aneurysm. Despite successful transcatheter arterial embolization, the patient died due to pneumonia. Our retrospective review of the case revealed that the CT scan obtained 3 months before the rupture had demonstrated dilatation of bilateral renal arteries.

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  1. Department of Radiology, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, 1-7-1 Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852, Japan, , , , , , JP

    E. Sueyoshi, I. Sakamoto, N. Hayashi, T. Fukuda, N. Matsunaga & K. Hayashi

  2. Inoue Hospital, 8-9 Takara-machi, Nagasaki 850, Japan, , , , , , JP

    K. Inoue

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Received: 24 October 1994/Accepted: 5 December 1994

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Sueyoshi, E., Sakamoto, I., Hayashi, N. et al. Ruptured renal artery aneurysm due to Behçet's disease. Abdom Imaging 21, 166–167 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002619900036

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