Spontaneous rupture of colic-artery aneurysms

Abstract

Two patients with spontaneous rupture of colic artery aneurysms were presented, one involving the left colic artery and the other the right colic artery. The literature on abdominal apoplexy and visceral arterial aneurysms was reviewed. In view of the potential for life-threatening hemorrhage, visceral arterial aneurysms should be resected prophylactically when discovered by angiography or at celiotomy.