title: A case of pulmonary varix associated with superior pulmonary vein occlusion.
abstract: A pulmonary varix is a localized dilatation of a pulmonary vein, which is usually asymptomatic presented as a mass on a chest roentgenogram, and diagnosed with pulmonary angiography. We encountered a case of 55 year-old man, in whom incidentally identified was a dilated blood vessel that passed through the minor fissure and returned to the inferior pulmonary vein, which we diagnosed as pulmonary varix. This vascular anomaly was accompanied by the occluded superior pulmonary vein, highly suggestive of the developmental mechanism of this disease.
authors.affiliation: Department of Respiratory Medicine, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Kanagawa Japan.
authors.forename: Sakurako
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tajiri
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Koizumi
authors.forename: Takuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hara
authors.forename: Masahiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kamono
authors.forename: Naoki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hayama
authors.forename: Ichiro
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authors.lastname: Kobayashi
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authors.lastname: Kondo
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authors.lastname: Kondo
authors.forename: Koichiro
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authors.lastname: Asano
authors.forename: Tadashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Abe
keywords: multislice CT; pulmonary varix; pulmonary vascular occlusion
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