title: Lung scintigraphy in pulmonary capillary hemangiomatosis. A rare disorder causing primary pulmonary hypertension.
abstract: The authors report the results of lung scintigraphy in two patients with primary pulmonary hypertension caused by pulmonary capillary hemangiomatosis, a rare disorder resulting from the proliferation of histologically normal capillaries in the lung. Perfusion studies revealed a nonhomogeneous pattern with some focal defects, similar to that seen with some other histologic types of primary pulmonary hypertension. The mechanisms underlying this perfusion pattern are unknown.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital and McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rush
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Langleben
authors.forename: R D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Schlesinger
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Stern
authors.forename: N S
authors.initials: NS
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lamoureux
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000209:etiology*; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013668:Technetium Tc 99m Aggregated Albumin
chemical_list: D013668:Technetium Tc 99m Aggregated Albumin