Imaging features of isolated unilateral pulmonary artery agenesis presenting in adulthood: a review of four cases

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 238-244

  Griffin, N ^a   Mansfield, L ^a   Redmond, K C ^a   Dusmet, M ^a   Goldstraw, P ^a   Mittal, T K ^a   Padley, S ^a  

^a ROYAL BROMPTON AND HAREFIELD NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRONCHODILATING AGENT; ENDOTHELIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GADOLINIUM;

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHIECTASIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COIL EMBOLIZATION; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HAMARTOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INCIDENTAL FINDING; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG PERFUSION; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; LUNG TUMOR; LUNG VENTILATION; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY DISEASE; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RADIATION ATTENUATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UNILATERAL PULMONARY ARTERY AGENESIS;

ADULT; AGED; BRONCHIECTASIS; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; PNEUMONECTOMY; PULMONARY ARTERY; RECURRENCE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33846837204     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2006.10.006     Document Type: Article

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