Circulation. 1996;93:1601
(Circulation. 1996;93:1601.)
© 1996 American Heart Association, Inc.
Saccular Aortic Aneurysm Simulating Pulmonary Artery Aneurysm
Herbert L. Fred, MD;
Elizabeth Douglass, MD;
Rohini Raghunathan, MD;
Federico Ng, MD
Correspondence to Dr Herbert L. Fred, St Luke's Episcopal Hospital/Texas Heart Institute, Room B 524, 6720 Bertner Ave, MC 1-267, Houston, TX 77030.
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Figure 1. Top left. Chest radiograph of a 60-year-old man
with acute cerebral infarction. The large, smoothly rounded, left hilar
mass suggests a pulmonary artery aneurysm.
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Figure 2. Top right. Lateral view shows the mass to be in the
middle mediastinum at the level of the left hilum. Aortic dilatations
above and below the mass are now more apparent.
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Figure 3. Bottom. Sequential CT images (A and B) at the level
of the left hilum demonstrate a normal pulmonary artery
adjacent to a large, saccular aortic aneurysm. Additional
imaging confirmed that the other aortic dilatations seen on the lateral
film were aneurysms as well.
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Footnotes
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From the Department of Internal Medicine, Lyndon B. Johnson
General Hospital, and the University of Texas Health Science
Center at Houston.
The editor of Images in Cardiovascular Medicine is Hugh A. McAllister, Jr, MD, Chief, Department of Pathology, St Luke's Hospital and Texas Heart Institute, and Clinical Professor of Pathology, University of Texas Medical School and Baylor College of Medicine.
Circulation encourages readers to submit cardiovascular images to Dr Hugh A. McAllister, Jr, St Luke's Episcopal Hospital and Texas Heart Institute, 6720 Bertner Ave, MC 4-265, Houston, TX 77030.
