title: Acute pulmonary trunk dissection in a patient with primary pulmonary hypertension.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Wunderbaldinger
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bernhard
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Uffmann
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kürkciyan
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Senbaklavaci
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Herold
mesh_terms: 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