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06 / Vascular Surgery · clerkship

Collapse with a pulsatile mass

  1. ED
  2. Consult
  3. Investigations
  4. Pre-Op
  5. OR
  6. Recovery
  7. Ward
  8. Debrief

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Sudden tearing back and flank pain, then collapse. HR 108, BP 86/58. The abdomen holds a tender, expansile, pulsatile mass above the umbilicus. He smoked for forty years.

Open in 3D: the aorta and iliac arteries

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