Anomalous retro-psoas iliac artery in a patient with right renal cancer: A case report

Abstract

Anomalous retro-psoas artery is an extremely rare congenital anomaly of the iliac arteries reported in the English-language literature. Using contrast-enhanced computed tomography, we incidentally diagnosed an anomalous retro-psoas artery in a 60-year-old male patient with right renal cancer. Although anomalous retro-psoas artery is extremely rare and mostly asymptomatic, knowledge of it is needed to avoid severe vascular complications in the event of vascular intervention and surgery.

Anomalous Retro Psoas Iliac Artery in a Patient with Guillain-Barre Syndrome: Case Report

“…The anomalous iliac artery was right sided in all but one of the reported cases, in which it was left sided, as reported by Mizuki Ozawa, et al [6]. Clinically, five of the cases were asymptomatic, while the remaining three presented with lower extremity claudication and pain [2,3,8].…”

“…Iliac artery anomalies are rather rare, the most common iliac artery anomaly is persistent sciatic artery with iliofemoral aplasia, which presents as a pulsatile mass in the gluteal region with absence of the femoral artery pulse [1,2]. The retro-psoas iliac artery is an extremely rare anatomical variant, with only eight reported cases in the literature in total [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]. Most of the patients are asymptomatic and the anomalous artery is detected incidentally during imaging.…”