Congenital Thoracic Vascular Anomalies: Evaluation with State-of-the-Art MR Imaging and MDCT

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 969-996

  Hellinger, Jeffrey C ^a   Daubert, Melissa ^b   Lee, Edward Y ^c   Epelman, Monica ^d  

^a Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic arch anomalies; CT angiography; MR angiography; MR imaging; Pulmonary artery anomalies; Pulmonary venous anomalies; Thoracic systemic venous anomalies

Indexed keywords

AORTA ARCH ANOMALY; AORTA ARCH INTERRUPTION; AORTA ARCH SYNDROME; AORTA ARCH TUBULAR HYPOPLASIA; AORTA COARCTATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONVENTIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; ESOPHAGOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LEFT SUPERIOR VENA CAVA WITH MIRROR IMAGE VENOUS DRAINAGE; LUNG VEIN DRAINAGE ANOMALY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERSISTENT LEFT SUPERIOR VENA CAVA; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY SLING; PULMONARY VEIN MALFORMATION; RETROAORTIC LEFT BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEIN; REVIEW; SCIMITAR SYNDROME; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STENT; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VASCULAR RING;

AORTA, THORACIC; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY VEINS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR MALFORMATIONS;

EID: 80052280956     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: 15578275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcl.2011.06.013     Document Type: Review

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