Images in cardiovascular medicine. Calcified pleural plaque can rupture thoracic aorta.
Division of Cardiology, Nippon Steel Yawata Memorial Hospital, Kitakyusyu city, Fukuoka, Japan.
Takahiro
T
Inoue
Tokushi
T
Koga
Shigeru
S
Kaseda
Yasuo
Y
Kaizuka
Nobuyuki
N
Kawazoe
Seizo
S
Sadoshima
Mituru
M
Kinjo
D000368:Aged; D001013:Aorta, Thoracic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000293:injuries*; D001019:Aortic Rupture / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D001027:Aortography; D001416:Back Pain / Q000209:etiology; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000150:complications*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010995:Pleural Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D012421:Rupture / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000150:complications