Lung torsion: preoperative diagnosis with angiography and computed tomography.
In a patient with lung torsion, computed tomography demonstrated an occluded right upper lobe bronchus with opacified posterior lung. A pulmonary angiogram demonstrated the right upper lobe artery to be posteriorly and inferiorly displaced into the consolidated lung. In selected cases, computed tomography and angiography can help to confirm a torsed lung.
Spizarny
D L
DL
Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan 48202, USA.
Shetty
P C
PC
Lewis
J W
JW
D000328:Adult; D000792:Angiography; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D013908:Thoracotomy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014102:Torsion Abnormality / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery