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A ten-year experience with bacterial aortitis
Mehmet C. Oz, MD, Bruce J. Brener, MD, Joseph A. Buda, MD, George Todd, MD, Richard W. Brenner, MD, Robert J. Goldenkranz, MD, Kathleen W. McNicholas, MD, Gerald M. Lemole, MD, Jerome S. Lozner, MD Journal of Vascular Surgery Volume 10, Issue 4, Pages (October 1989) DOI: / (89) Copyright © 1989 Society for Vascular Surgery and International Society for Cardiovascular Surgery, North American Chapter Terms and Conditions
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Fig. 1 Changes in appearance of the aorta on CT scan. A, Initial CT scan reveals thickening around the aorta (arrow). Journal of Vascular Surgery , DOI: ( / (89) ) Copyright © 1989 Society for Vascular Surgery and International Society for Cardiovascular Surgery, North American Chapter Terms and Conditions
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Fig. 1B Ten days after Fig. 1A scan, CT scan shows aortic disruption with hematoma (arrow). Journal of Vascular Surgery , DOI: ( / (89) ) Copyright © 1989 Society for Vascular Surgery and International Society for Cardiovascular Surgery, North American Chapter Terms and Conditions
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Fig. 1C Sepsis persisted, and a CT scan 6 weeks after the original scan shows air and fluid in the reroperitoneum (arrow). Salmonella was the infecting organism. Journal of Vascular Surgery , DOI: ( / (89) ) Copyright © 1989 Society for Vascular Surgery and International Society for Cardiovascular Surgery, North American Chapter Terms and Conditions
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Fig. 2 CT scan reveals a large aneurysm with air (arrow) in the wall of the aorta. Two gram-negative organisms were cultured. Journal of Vascular Surgery , DOI: ( / (89) ) Copyright © 1989 Society for Vascular Surgery and International Society for Cardiovascular Surgery, North American Chapter Terms and Conditions
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Fig. 3 A, CT scan reveals a slightly enlarged, calcified aorta (arrows) in a patient with Salmonella gastroenteritis. B, Three weeks later, the aorta is markedly aneurysmal (arrows). Salmonella was cultured from the aorta. Journal of Vascular Surgery , DOI: ( / (89) ) Copyright © 1989 Society for Vascular Surgery and International Society for Cardiovascular Surgery, North American Chapter Terms and Conditions
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Fig. 4 Saccular, lobulated appearance of an infected aneurysm that began as infection of nonaneurysmal tissue. Journal of Vascular Surgery , DOI: ( / (89) ) Copyright © 1989 Society for Vascular Surgery and International Society for Cardiovascular Surgery, North American Chapter Terms and Conditions
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