Rare vascular anomaly mimicking bronchogenic carcinoma

We report a case of anomalous left pulmonary artery (pulmonary artery sling) detected incidentally on computed tomography thorax. This was carried out to rule out bronchogenic carcinoma in a patient of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who presented with streaking. He was a chronic smoker having...

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Autores principales: Verma, Sanjeev Kumar, Mahajan, Vineet
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3109842/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21712930
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.80336
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description We report a case of anomalous left pulmonary artery (pulmonary artery sling) detected incidentally on computed tomography thorax. This was carried out to rule out bronchogenic carcinoma in a patient of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who presented with streaking. He was a chronic smoker having bilateral hilar prominence on chest radiograph.
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spelling pubmed-31098422011-06-27 Rare vascular anomaly mimicking bronchogenic carcinoma Verma, Sanjeev Kumar Mahajan, Vineet Lung India Case Report We report a case of anomalous left pulmonary artery (pulmonary artery sling) detected incidentally on computed tomography thorax. This was carried out to rule out bronchogenic carcinoma in a patient of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who presented with streaking. He was a chronic smoker having bilateral hilar prominence on chest radiograph. Medknow Publications 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3109842/ /pubmed/21712930 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.80336 Text en © Lung India http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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