Abstract
We report here a case of a 44-year-old female with a pulmonary varix. The patient
was asymptomatic; a routine chest X-ray incidentally revealed a serpiginous mass in
the left hilar region. Computed tomography revealed a serpiginous, dilated vascular
structure in the left upper lobe that continued into the lower lobe and was suggestive
of an arteriovenous malformation. Pulmonary angiography revealed no arterial abnormality;
however, the filling of an abnormally dilated pulmonary vein was observed. Angiography
is considered to be the most useful method for the confirmatory diagnosis of pulmonary
varices.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: July 09, 2007
Accepted:
May 17,
2007
Received in revised form:
May 10,
2007
Received:
March 10,
2007
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