We report the case of Mr IS 50 years old without notable antecedents, admitted in our service in a haemorrhagic table of shock associated with an abdominal mass giving the lumbar contact in connection with a broken aneurysm in the right renal artery associated with ipsilateral renal ischemia. A right nephrectomy was carried out and a subtotal resection of aneurysm with installation of a drainage. The operational continuations were simple. We review the literature regarding epidemiology, classification, symptomatology and management of aneurysms of the renal artery