title: Individual pulmonary vein atresia in adults: report of two cases.
abstract: We present two cases of individual pulmonary vein atresia without vestige of an involved pulmonary vein. On CT, we noted the absence or interruption of normal pulmonary venous structures, and the presence of abnormal vascular structures that represented collaterals for the involved lung parenchyma. On angiography, the atretic pulmonary vein was found to drain into the other ipsilateral pulmonary veins through the collaterals.
authors: Department of Radiology, Soonchunhyang University Cheonan Hospital, Cheonan 330-721, Korea.
authors: Hyoung Nam
authors: HN
authors: Lee
authors: Young Tong
authors: YT
authors: Kim
authors: Sung Sik
authors: SS
authors: Cho
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