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Yeh, Kim, Kim, Kim, Lee, Moon, and Chung: Endovascular Treatment of a Ruptured Internal Mammary Artery Pseudoaneurysm Presenting as Massive Hemothorax in a Patient with Type I Neurofibromatosis
Case Report

Journal of the Korean Radiological Society 2005; 52(3): 187-190.

Published online: 31 March 2005

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3348/jkrs.2005.52.3.187

Endovascular Treatment of a Ruptured Internal Mammary Artery Pseudoaneurysm Presenting as Massive Hemothorax in a Patient with Type I Neurofibromatosis

Dae Wook Yeh, Soo Jin Kim, Chang Won Kim, Suk Kim, Tae Hong Lee, Tae Yong Moon, Sung Woon Chung

Department of Radiology, Pusan National University Hospital, Korea.

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Pusan National University Hospital, Korea.

Corresponding author: radkim@hanafos.com

Copyright © 2005 by The Korean Society of Radiology

Abstract

We report a case of an acute hemothorax caused by a rupture of a left internal mammary artery pseudoaneurysm in a 45-year-old woman with a type I neurofibromatosis, which was successfully treated using endovascular coil embolization.

Keywords: Arteries, internal mammary, Arteries, therapeutic embolization, Neurofibromatosis

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