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A 73-year-old man was admitted to the hospital with a diagnosis of a contained, ruptured aneurysm of the left femoral artery.
The patient was a retired shipyard pipe fitter, with known exposure to asbestos. He had smoked one pack of cigarettes daily for 30 years and then switched to pipe-smoking 32 years before admission. He also had "chronic bronchitis," which was managed with theophylline, and hypertension, which was treated with enalapril. Ten years before entry a stage B1 carcinoma of the prostate gland was found and was treated at another hospital by radiation therapy with a 4-MeV linear accelerator; the
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