Compression of the Right Pulmonary Artery by a Massive Descending Aortic Aneurysm Causing Bilateral Perfusion Defects on Pulmonary Scintigraphy
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : William Makis & Vilma Derbekyan
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2011
Description
A 67-year-old woman, who presented with a 2 month history of dyspnea, had a ventilation and perfusion lung scan that showed absent perfusion of the entire right lung with normal ventilation, as well as a rounded matched defect in the left lower lung adjacent to midline, suspicious for an aortic aneurysm or dissection. CT pulmonary angiography revealed a massive descending aortic aneurysm compressing the right pulmonary artery as well as the left lung parenchyma, accounting for the bilateral perfusion scan defects. We present the Xe-133 ventilation, Tc-99m MAA perfusion and CT pulmonary angiography imaging findings of this rare case.
Nucl Med Mol Imaging DOI 10.1007/s13139-011-0098-4 Received: 16 March 2011 / Revised: 28 May 2011 / Accepted: 11 July 2011
