Comment on "Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm as a Long Time Cause of Low Back Pain and Vertebral Scalloping".

Dear Editor, We have read Yildizgoren et al.’s [1] article on a patient with a chronic contained rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) with great interest. The authors described the patient’s pain as “even at rest, especially during lying down,” besides standing and walking. We have just had a similar experience. A 76-year-old male had been admitted to our outpatient clinic with non-radiating low back pain persisting for the last 2 or 3 months and characteristically different from the former types of pain he had experienced. He clearly defined that the pain was worse when he was lying supine and in a lateral decubitus position, and diminished when lying prone. He had no pain during walking or any kind …