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Volume 73, Issue 6, Pages 331-333 (June 2010)


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Right Hepatic Artery Pseudoaneurysm Ruptured Into the Gallbladder Demonstrated by Magnetic Resonance Angiography

Yen-Huai LinaCorresponding Author Informationemail address, Rheun-Chuan Leeac, Cheng-Yuan Hsiabc, Hung-Chieh Chena, Jen-Huey Chiangac, Hsiuo-Shan Tsenga, Cheng-Yen Changac

Received 22 June 2009; accepted 24 March 2010.

Rupture of a right hepatic artery pseudoaneurysm into the gallbladder is very rare. We demonstrated a 20-mm dumbbell-shaped pseudoaneurysm in the gallbladder lumen by using contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography in a 73-year-old man with acute right upper abdominal pain. Inflammation of the gallbladder caused by calculous cholecystitis, which leads to biliary leakage and erodes the right hepatic artery, could have been the cause.

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a Department of Radiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

b Department of Surgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

c National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Dr Yen-Huai Lin, Department of Radiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, 201, Section 2, Shih-Pai Road, Taipei 112, Taiwan, R.O.C.

PII: S1726-4901(10)70071-X

doi:10.1016/S1726-4901(10)70071-X


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