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Case Reports in Medicine
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 906250, 3 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/906250
Late Diagnosis of Silent Thoracic Aortic Rupture Presented as a Right Pleural Effusion
1Thoracic Surgery Department, Sismanoglio General Hospital, 1 Sismanogliou Street, Marousi, 151 26 Athens, Greece
2Department of Vascular Surgery, Sismanoglio General Hospital, 1 Sismanogliou Street, Marousi, 151 26 Athens, Greece
Received 20 May 2012; Revised 1 December 2012; Accepted 15 December 2012
Academic Editor: T. A. Salerno
Copyright © 2012 Meletios A. Kanakis et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Patients with ruptured thoracic aortic aneurysm rarely present in a stable clinical condition. A man was referred to our hospital with the diagnosis of ruptured saccular aneurysm of the descending thoracic aorta. He successfully underwent both endovascular graft repair and open thoracotomy.