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A patient with rheumatoid arthritis was admitted with a sudden onset of abdominal pain owing to a retroperitoneal haemorrhage from a false aneurysm of the superior gluteal artery. This aneurysm probably developed as a result of a migrating total hip prosthesis
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Bakker, K.W., Gast, L.F. Retroperitoneal haemorrhage from the superior glutaeal artery: A late complication of total hip arthroplasty. Clin Rheumatol 9, 249–253 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02031979
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