Vascular involvement in neurofibromatosis type 1 is rare but has the potential to be fatal. We report a case of a patient with spontaneous rupture of a left intercostal artery aneurysm, which presented as a massive left hemothorax and was successfully treated by transarterial coil embolization.
Angiography ; Embolization, Therapeutic/*methods ; Female ; Hemothorax/*etiology/radiography/*therapy ; Humans ; Middle Aged ; Neurofibromatosis 1/*complications ; Rupture, Spontaneous ; Tomography, X-Ray Computed