Inflammatory abdominal aortic aneurysms.

• Vol 7 • June 2005 Inflammatory Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms In 1972, Walker et al. [1] first coined the term inflammatory abdominal aortic aneurysm to describe what they thought of as a distinct subset of AAA. The entity they described was an aneurysm characterized by “an unusually thick wall surrounded by extensive fibrous adhesions, involving adjoining tissues and structures.” The reported incidence of inflammatory aortic aneurysms in the literature varies between 2.5% and 15% of all AAA [1–16]. The distinct clinicopathologic findings (symptomatology as described below, together with the triad of a thickened aneurysmal wall, extensive peri-aneurysmal and

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