Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm: A Rare Case Report

Symptomatic thoracic aortic aneurysms (TAA) are rare. A 72 year-old man was admitted to our chest disease clinic suffering from back pain for the past two years. Posteroanterior chest X-ray showed left hilar enlargement. Computerised thorax tomography (CTT) images were taken and a saccular TAA 8 cm in diameter was found. An endovascular stent graft was successfully implanted in the patient. In this paper, we aim to show that TAA should be considered as a differential diagnosis of patients with chronic back pain and hilar enlargement.