Pulmonary Vein Varix: A Diagnostic Enigma

Sacciform varix of right pulmonary vein.

Pulmonary varix.

Pulmonary varix is a rare disorder which is usually discovered by change during the third to sixth decade in an asymptomatic patient. The 37th example is reported with a review of the literature. The disorder is possibly congenital and may affect any lobe. Pulmonary angiography is the preferred procedure for diagnosis. If symptoms are present, they can usually attributed to associated cardiopul...

Diagnostic enigma: primary pulmonary artery sarcoma.

Primary angiosarcoma of pulmonary artery is a very rare lesion. We present a case of primary angiosarcoma that was initially misdiagnosed as a subacute massive pulmonary thromboembolism in a 30-year-old man. This rare disease is usually indistinguishable from acute or chronic thromboembolic disease of the pulmonary arteries. The clinical and radiological findings of pulmonary artery angiosarcom...

A complex pulmonary vein varix -- diagnosis with ECG gated MDCT, MRI and invasive pulmonary angiography.

A case of an asymptomatic 32-year-old male with a complex congenital pulmonary vein varix is reported herein. Chest X-ray incidentally revealed a tubular opacity passing from the periphery of the left lingula to the mediastinum. ECG gated multidetector computed tomography showed the opacity to be a vessel emptying into the left atrium via the left superior pulmonary vein. In addition, a second ...

Pulmonary varix associated with an anomalous unilateral single pulmonary vein mimicking pulmonary arterio-venous malformation.

A 52-year old female was admitted for treatment of lung cancer in the right upper lobe. A left-sided serpentine opacity was incidentally detected and a pulmonary arterio-venous malformation was suspected (Fig. 1). However, pulmonary varix associated with an anomalous unilateral single pulmonary vein was diagnosed by imaging studies (Fig. 2, Supplementary Video 1). Supplementary material (Video ...