Meandering pulmonary veins with a common inferior trunk: An anomalous left inferior pulmonary vein entering an anomalous right inferior pulmonary vein

Radiation Medicine - Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 426-429

  Sato, Masayuki ^a   Tanaka, Daizo ^a   Nakajo, Masayuki ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anomaly; Meandering pulmonary vein; Three dimensional computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PULMONARY VEIN MALFORMATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; METHODOLOGY; PULMONARY VEIN; RADIOGRAPHY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; PULMONARY VEINS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 39349101379     PISSN: 02882043     EISSN: 18625274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11604-007-0155-1     Document Type: Article

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