title: Pulmonary artery compression due to acute dissecting aortic aneurysm: clinical and angiographic diagnosis.
abstract: Clinical and angiographic features simulating acute massive pulmonary embolism, the result of compression of the right and main pulmonary arteries by a dissecting hematoma, are described in a 52-year-old white woman.
mesh_terms: D000790:Angiocardiography; D000792:Angiography; D001014:Aortic Aneurysm / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D001157:Arterial Occlusive Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006406:Hematoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging