Some Pathological Aspects of Dissecting Aneurysm

Abstract

Based upon a Dissertation on “Dissecting Aneurysm” given before the Society on Friday, 17th January 1958. The term dissecting aneurysm implies the development of a circulatory pathway between the layers of the vessel wall. It can occur at all ages and in both sexes, being most frequent in men, in the fourth, fifth, and sixth decades, and in women in the eighth and ninth decades. It does not occur in normal arteries.