A case of pulmonary vascular occlusive disease: comparison of post-mortem radiography and histology.
A case of rapidly progressing fatal pulmonary hypertension in a nine-year-old boy showing histological narrowing and occlusion of pulmonary veins and arteries is described. Post-mortem radiography of the air-inflated, excised lung without use of additional contrast media nicely demonstrated the vascular lesions.
D001157:Arterial Occlusive Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D011651:Pulmonary Artery; D011667:Pulmonary Veins; D011859:Radiography; D014652:Vascular Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*