title: Strategy for 3-D computed tomography diagnosis and treatment of small pulmonary arteriovenous fistula.
abstract: In a patient with left hemianopsia, computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging revealed an intracranial space-occupying lesion in the right occipital region. A cerebral abscess was removed at craniotomy. Enhanced pulmonary CT showed a small coin lesion in the peripheral lingula. and at 3-D CT two nidi with feeding arteries and draining veins were seen, indicating pulmonary arteriovenous fistula. Lingular segmentectomy was performed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Ishikawa Prefectural Central Hospital, Kanazawa, Japan. tsune@ipch.kanazawa.ishikawa.jp
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tsunezuka
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tsukioka
mesh_terms: D000792:Angiography; D001164:Arteriovenous Fistula / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D001922:Brain Abscess / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D016908:Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D010462:Peptostreptococcus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D011013:Pneumonectomy; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011667:Pulmonary Veins / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed