The Open General & Internal Medicine Journal

2009, 3 : 11-13
Published online 2009 March 6. DOI: 10.2174/1874076600802010011
Publisher ID: TOGMJ-3-11

Pseudoaneurysm of the Femoral Artery – An Unusual Presentation of Behçet's Disease

Susy Kovatz , Ramona Segal , Lotan Shilo , Alla Shabun and Louis Shenkman
this author at the Department of Medicine C, Meir Hospital Center, Kfar Saba, Israel and The Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

ABSTRACT

Behçet's disease is a multisystem disorder of probable autoinflammatory etiology with manifestations that can affect many organ systems. We present a patient with the unusual presentation of splenic infarction and pseudoaneurysm of the iliac artery. Behçet's disease should be included in the differential diagnosis of pseudoaneurysms if they are accompanied by other classic features of this interesting disease.