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Case Report

Volume 12, Number 9, September 2021, pages 377-379


Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms and Q Fever: An Odd Connection to Keep in Mind

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Figure 1.
Figure 1. (a) A computed tomography angiogram (CTA) 3D reconstruction revealing a saccular infra-renal abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) (yellow arrowhead). (b) An 18fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography (18FDG-PET) image depicting para-aortic and mediastinal adenopathies. No abdominal aortic uptake was noticed. (c) A 1 month post-operative CTA on a maximal intensity projection reconstruction showing permeability of the endograft used to treat the aneurysm. No contrast opacification was visible within the aneurysm sac. (d) An axial projection of the same CTA as (c). During arterial phase acquisition, no contrast opacification was visible inside the aneurysm sac (yellow arrowhead).