BACKGROUND: Only six cases of femoral vein aneurysm are related on medical literature. CASE REPORT: A case of a right common femoral vein aneurysm simulating an inguinal hernia in a 19 year-old male. He had a soft and painful mass in the right inguinal area of six months of duration. At medical consultation, the patient died during a generalized convulsive episode. At necropsy, massive pulmonary thromboembolism and an 8x8x7 cm common femoral vein aneurysm with thrombus were recognized.
Aneurysm; Tromboembolism; Pulmonary embolia; Thrombosis