title: Echocardiographic diagnosis of pulmonary vein varix.
abstract: Pulmonary vein varix is a rare abnormality, often resembling a pulmonary or mediastinal mass on chest radiographs, and pulmonary angiography has been the mainstay of diagnosis. An unusual case of pulmonary vein varix was clearly defined by echocardiography performed in a 47-year-old woman with chest discomfort who had been found to have an abnormal structure behind the cardiac silhouette on a chest radiograph. The diagnosis of left lower pulmonary vein varix was noninvasively confirmed by transthoracic echocardiography and transesophageal echocardiography.
authors.affiliation: Second Department of Medicine, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan. sjun@msj.biglobe.ne.jp
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Shiraishi
authors.forename: Tetsuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tatsumi
authors.forename: Masaki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kimata
authors.forename: Daisuke
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kambayashi
authors.forename: Akiko
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mano
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yamanaka
authors.forename: Miyuki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kobara
authors.forename: Akihiro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Azuma
authors.forename: Masao
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nakagawa
mesh_terms: D000792:Angiography; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004452:Echocardiography; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D011667:Pulmonary Veins / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D014648:Varicose Veins / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*