Thomas Mann: Vascular Fatal Illness of the Writer Who Mastered Disease Through Literary Fiction.

Ruptured iliac artery may initially clinically mimic an isolated inferior limb venous involvement. It was indeed an acute iliac artery dissection complicated by contained rupture and misdiagnosed as inferior limb venous thrombosis that led to the death of Thomas Mann in 1955. The details of the complex case are analyzed. Considerations of medical interest and on actuality of his work are also added.