Demonstration of hepatic aneurysms in polyarteritis nodosa by arteriography.

Abstract

ARTERIOGRAPHY offers a new ante-mortem approach to the diagnosis of polyarteritis noby demonstrating multiple visceral aneurysms, a specific sign of the disease. The demonstration of aneurysms by arteriography in a single organ was first reported by Fleming and Stern1 (1965), and in multiple organs by Bron et al.2 (1965). In the few previously reported cases aneurysms occurred mainly in the kidneys and were saccular in type.3 4 5 6 This report describes a patient in whom the multiple aneurysms were confined to the liver and were fusiform in appearance. Case Report K.M. (P9–82–65), a 67-year-old woman, was referred to Presbyterian—University Hospital with a . . .