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Clinical Aspects of Cardiovascular Diseases in Ancient Egypt (From the Ebers Papyrus: The Vascular Text)
Published in Ibrahim M. Eltorai, A Spotlight on the History of Ancient Egyptian Medicine, 2019
Comment: This is a description of an arterio-venous or cirsoid aneurysm or fistula with its serpentine secondary varicose veins and its transmitted arterial pulsations to the venous side. He does not advise operation on it probably because of danger of bleeding and recurrences, which do occur, especially in the congenital form. Therefore it was left for Re and recitals for treatment by magic.*
Benign tumors
Published in Archana Singal, Shekhar Neema, Piyush Kumar, Nail Disorders, 2019
Caliber-persistent artery is not a tumor (Dieulafoy’s lesion, cirsoid aneurysm, or submucosal arterial malformation), but an acquired or inborn lesion where the terminal artery caliber does not diminish with each branching but remains wide. It is relatively common in the intestinal tract but is rare in skin, mainly seen on the lower lip.209 A small nodule with chronic superficial ulceration develops. Gentle palpation may reveal pulsation.210 Ultrasound also helps to make the diagnosis.211 Two patients presenting with subungual lesions and a split nail were histologically diagnosed as caliber-persistent artery. MR imaging had shown a longitudinal lesion of suspected vascular origin. The diagnosis was completely unexpected; as nail surgery is performed with a tourniquet bleeding was not an intraoperative feature suggesting the correct diagnosis. Treatment of choice is ligation of the artery on both ends. The diagnosis of subungual caliber-persistent artery is an unexpected finding. As a split in the nail can have many different causes, caliber-persistent artery should be included into the list of differential diagnoses.
Endovascular management of splanchnic artery aneurysms
Published in Sachinder Singh Hans, Alexander D Shepard, Mitchell R Weaver, Paul G Bove, Graham W Long, Endovascular and Open Vascular Reconstruction, 2017
Aneurysms of the gastric and gastroepiploic arteries occur through various mechanisms, the most common of which are atherosclerosis and medial degeneration. An unusual cause of gastric artery aneurysms (GAAs) is the so-called caliber-persistent artery of the stomach, also called cirsoid aneurysm, miliary aneurysm of the stomach, or Dieulafoy’s vascular malformation. These lesions are probably congenital anatomic variants in which gastric vessels penetrate the submucosa without decreasing in size or joining in the normal submucosal anastomotic plexus of vessels.1, 5
Congenital Cirsoid aneurysm communicating with the sagittal sinus and supplied by extra and intracranial arteries
Published in British Journal of Neurosurgery, 2019
O. E. Idowu, O. A. Ayodele, H. A. Oshola
Arteriovenous fistulas of the scalp (Cirsoid aneurysm) are rare lesions with intricate vascular anatomy and high shunt flow pathology with or without cosmetic complications. Cirsoid is derived from the Greek work “kirsos” which means varix. The term Cirsoid aneurysm (CA) was applied to vascular malformations of the scalp in 1833 by Brecht and is used to describe a fistulous connection between the arterial feeding vessels of the scalp and the draining veins without an intervening capillary bed.1