A Buerger's patient with brachial artery aneurysm

Abstract

ABTSTRACT Thromboangiitis obliterans (TAO) is a vasculopathy that presents with non-atherosclerotic segmental involvement in small and medium-sized arteries, usually in the upper and lower extremities. Brachial Artery Aneurysm (BAA) is not one of the classic findings of TAO and has no example in the literature. In this report, we described a TAO patient who underwent an aneurysmectomy due to a BAA.

Keywords

• Arteritis
• brachial artery aneurysm
• smoking
• thromboangiitis obliterans

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