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Traumatic Inferior Gluteal Artery Aneurysm Managed with Emergency Transcatheter Thrombin Injection

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Pseudoaneurysms of the inferior gluteal artery (IGA) are rare and are often caused by trauma. Treatment options vary and include surgery, ultrasound-guided percutaneous thrombin injection, and endovascular procedures such as stent-graft placement, coil embolization, and glue injection. We report a 70-year-old male who presented to the hospital after a road accident with a posttraumatic pseudoaneurysm that was treated by endovascular thrombin embolization. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case of inferior gluteal artery false aneurysm treated by this method.

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  1. Department of Radiology, Poznań University of Medical Sciences, Szpital Kliniczny nr 1, Ul. Długa ½, 61-848, Poznan, Poland

    Robert Juszkat, Mateusz Wykrętowicz & Alina Piekarek

  2. Department of General and Vascular Surgery, Poznań University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland

    Maciej Zieliński & Wacław Majewski

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Juszkat, R., Zieliński, M., Wykrętowicz, M. et al. Traumatic Inferior Gluteal Artery Aneurysm Managed with Emergency Transcatheter Thrombin Injection. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol 33, 607–609 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00270-009-9588-5

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