Pseudoaneurysm of the cystic artery is a rare complication of cholecystitis. 34 cases have been reported from 1976 to 2012, searched on MEDLINE and most of the cases have presented with gastrointestinal bleeding. We report the third case of an unruptured pseudoaneurysm of the cystic artery associated with calculous cholecystitis.
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January 2010
A 55-year-old woman was admitted because of a tumor located in the ventral region of S4 of the liver, just beneath the diaphragm. A CT scan revealed the round tumor to be delineated as a 33 mm in size, with an outer capsule. The tumor was visualized as concentric circles which presented high-, low-, and high- signal patterns on T2-weighted MRI.
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