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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 69, 919-921, Copyright © 1975 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association

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Spotaneous rupture of an intercostal artery in a patient with neurofibromatosis and scoliosis

EG Butchart, GJ Grotte and WC Barnsley

A case is reported of spontaneous rupture of an intercostal artery at its origin from the aorta in a patient with neurofibromatosis and scoliosis. The possible role played by each of these conditions in the pathogenesis of the spontaneous rupture is discussed. Comment is made on the unusual radiologic appearances of extrapleural hemorrhage.

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