Acute abdominal pain due to spontaneous rupture of the right gastric artery

A rare case of spontaneous rupture of an aneurysm of the right gastric artery

“…With regard to gastric and gastroepiploic artery aneurysms, the left gastric artery (LGA) origin is the site of involvement in a majority of cases. Aneurysms occurring at the origin of the RGA have been reported in very few cases [4] , [10] , [11] , [12] , [13] , [14] , [15] ( Table 1 ). In our patient, we detected an aneurysm at the origin of the RGA using angiography images reconstructed from a CT scan.…”