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Can anything be done for an aorta that is embedded in an abodominal mass?
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Depends: What is the mass? Malignant or benign? Difficult to answer without seeing the scan.
Answered 8/10/2012
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Depend: It depend on what kind of mass it is, typically it is very dangerous to separate aorta from the mass.
Answered 10/1/2015
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