Calcification of thoracic aorta – solar eclipse sign

BACKGROUND: Calcification of thoracic aorta is very common in old people, especially ones with hypertension. This can sometime be visible on plain chest radiograph. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a case of a male patient who had extensive deposition of calcium in the thoracic aorta. CONCLUSION: The r...

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Autores principales: Dhoble, Abhijeet, Puttarajappa, Chethan
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2546373/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18759981
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-133
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description BACKGROUND: Calcification of thoracic aorta is very common in old people, especially ones with hypertension. This can sometime be visible on plain chest radiograph. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a case of a male patient who had extensive deposition of calcium in the thoracic aorta. CONCLUSION: The relationship between aortic calcification and coronary atherosclerosis remains contentious. Computed tomography of the thorax can display this calcification which appears like 'solar eclipse'.
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spelling pubmed-25463732008-09-20 Calcification of thoracic aorta – solar eclipse sign Dhoble, Abhijeet Puttarajappa, Chethan Cases J Case Report BACKGROUND: Calcification of thoracic aorta is very common in old people, especially ones with hypertension. This can sometime be visible on plain chest radiograph. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a case of a male patient who had extensive deposition of calcium in the thoracic aorta. CONCLUSION: The relationship between aortic calcification and coronary atherosclerosis remains contentious. Computed tomography of the thorax can display this calcification which appears like 'solar eclipse'. BioMed Central 2008-08-29 /pmc/articles/PMC2546373/ /pubmed/18759981 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-133 Text en Copyright © 2008 Dhoble and Puttarajappa; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Calcification of thoracic aorta – solar eclipse sign
title_full Calcification of thoracic aorta – solar eclipse sign
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title_short Calcification of thoracic aorta – solar eclipse sign
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2546373/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18759981
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-133
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