[A case of racemose hemangioma of the right bronchial artery and intercostal to pulmonary arterial anastomosis].
We reported a case of racemose hemangioma of the bronchial artery and intercostal to pulmonary arterial anastomosis. A 67-year-old woman was admitted because of repeated hemoptysis. Bronchoscopic examination revealed a torous lesion of the right B7 bronchus. Intercostal angiography demonstrated communications between right dilated, meandered intercostal arteries and right pulmonary artery. Bronchial angiography showed dilatation and convolution of the right bronchial artery. Angiographic embolization of the right bronchial artery and the right intercostal artery was underwent. There was no recurrence of hemoptysis one year after the embolization procedure. We think that angiographic embolization is an effective method of treatment of hemoptysis due to racemose hemangioma of the bronchial artery and intercostal to pulmonary arterial anastomosis.
Tanaka
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Department of Thoracic Surgery, Minami Osaka General Hospital, Japan.
Morita
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Kakimoto
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D000368:Aged; D001158:Arteries / Q000002:abnormalities*; D001981:Bronchial Arteries; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic; D005260:Female; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000002:abnormalities*; D013909:Thorax / Q000098:blood supply*