DISSECTING aneurysm of the aorta has long been recognized as a disease entity, and is ordinarily regarded as a rapidly fatal condition. A certain proportion of dissecting aneurysms redissect into the lumen of the aorta, forming the so-called "double-barreled" aorta. Occasional cases of dissecting aneurysm have survived for a considerable period after the acute episode, many of them being of the...

Dissecting cellulitis is an inflammatory disease of the skin. We report a case of recurrent dissecting cellulitis in a patient with Crohn's disease. A 31-year-old man with a history of purulent scalp lesions presented with night sweats, weight loss, abdominal pain, and hematochezia. Colonoscopy revealed a diffuse friable mucosa with extensive pseudopolyps. Scalp biopsy demonstrated epidermoid i...

aneurysms of the vertebrobasilar system has been reported to account for 4.5% of intracranial SAH (1). Since ruptured VA dissecting aneurysms are associated with a higher incidence of rebleeding (2, 3), early diagnosis and treatment are required (4). Due to its lower invasiveness and good outcomes, endovascular treatment has been considered an alternative treatment modality for ruptured VA diss...

Dissecting intra-myocardial haematoma is a rare disease and a potentially fatal complication after cardiac surgery. Patients with previous heart surgery have more risk for dissecting intra-myocardial haematoma after percutaneous coronary intervention. Management of this issue is challenging. We describe a rare case of a 63-year-old woman with a left ventricular wall-dissecting intra-myocardial ...

Dissecting anterior inferior cerebellar artery (AICA) aneurysms are extremely rare, and only nine cases are reported till date. We are reporting a case of ruptured dissecting distal AICA aneurysm with spontaneous resolution; first of its kind in the indexed literature.

A patient with cervicocranial fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD) presented with subarachnoid hemorrhage. A ruptured dissecting distal vertebral artery aneurysm required clip ligation of the parent artery; a contralateral dissecting proximal vertebral aneurysm was occluded with detachable coils. Progressive dissecting, extracranial aneurysms of the internal carotid artery were treated with self-expan...

RUPTURE iS the usual cause of death in cases of dissecting aneurysm of the aorta in the acute stage. In Sheenan's series of 300 cases (1934) the pericardium was the commonest site of rupture, the pleural cavity being next in frequency. Sheenan described only two cases that survived intrapleural rupture of a dissecting aneurysm, one for 17 days, the other 19 days, and in a review of 505 cases of...