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A 51-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with sustained fever and lower back pain. Physical examination showed that she had a discrepancies in blood pressure between both arms. Contrast-enhanced whole-body computed tomography showed stenosis of the thoracic aorta and an aneurysm located in the distal part of the superior mesenteric artery. The diameter of the aneurysm was 4.5 cm. The aneurysm was resected via 4-cm mini-laparotomy, and the vascularity of the intestine was successfully preserved. The postoperative course was uneventful, and the patient was diagnosed as having TA based on both clinical and pathologic findings. Additional corticosteroid therapy was started to treat the arteritis, and at 3-month follow-up she was without critical incidents. Mini-laparotomy is a safe and less-invasive approach to treat SMAA, especially when the lesion is located in the distal part of the artery.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.9738\/intsurg-d-14-00127.1","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,4,15]],"date-time":"2015-04-15T20:49:52Z","timestamp":1429130992000},"page":"765-769","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["Mini-Laparotomy for Superior Mesenteric Artery Aneurysm Due to Takayasu's Arteritis"],"prefix":"10.9738","volume":"100","author":[{"given":"Takatsugu","family":"Matsumoto","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Dokkyo Medical University, Tochigi, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mitsuru","family":"Ishizuka","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Dokkyo Medical University, Tochigi, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yukihiro","family":"Iso","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Dokkyo Medical University, Tochigi, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Junji","family":"Kita","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Dokkyo Medical University, Tochigi, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Keiichi","family":"Kubota","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Dokkyo Medical University, Tochigi, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"4721","reference":[{"issue":"4","key":"i0020-8868-100-4-765-b01","series-title":"J Vasc Surg","first-page":"806","article-title":"Visceral artery aneurysm rupture","volume":"33","author":"Carr\n              SC,","year":"2001","unstructured":"Carr\n              SC, \n            \n              Mahvi\n              DM, \n            \n              Hoch\n              JR, \n            \n              Archer\n              CW, \n            \n              Turnipseed\n              WD.\n            \n          \n          Visceral artery aneurysm rupture. 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