Acute pulmonary trunk dissection in a patient with primary pulmonary hypertension.
Spiral CT imaging findings including multiplanar reconstructions of an acute dissection of the pulmonary trunk in a 22-year-old female patient with primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH) are presented and discussed.
Wunderbaldinger
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Department of Radiology, University of Vienna, Austria.
Bernhard
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Uffmann
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Kürkciyan
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Senbaklavaci
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Herold
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CJ
D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed