Medical Must-See: Doctors get the sac from child’s internal iliac artery

No underlying cause was identified in this extremely rare case.
The excised aneurysmal sac.

Iranian surgeons have removed a 4cm x 4cm aneurysmal sac after diagnosing an idiopathic left internal iliac artery aneurysm in an 11-year-old boy.

The previously healthy patient had experienced two months of severe abdominal pain before his admission to hospital.