Circulation Journal
Online ISSN : 1347-4820
Print ISSN : 1346-9843
ISSN-L : 1346-9843
Case Report
Echocardiographic Diagnosis of Pulmonary Vein Varix
Jun ShiraishiTetsuya TatsumiMasaki KimataDaisuke KambayashiAkiko ManoSatoshi YamanakaMiyuki KobaraAkihiro AzumaMasao Nakagawa
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2003 Volume 67 Issue 9 Pages 796-798

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Pulmonary vein varix is a rare abnormality, often resembling a pulmonary or mediastinal mass on chest radiographs, and pulmonary angiography has been the mainstay of diagnosis. An unusual case of pulmonary vein varix was clearly defined by echocardiography performed in a 47-year-old woman with chest discomfort who had been found to have an abnormal structure behind the cardiac silhouette on a chest radiograph. The diagnosis of left lower pulmonary vein varix was noninvasively confirmed by transthoracic echocardiography and transesophageal echocardiography. (Circ J 2003; 67: 796 - 798)

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