• Emergency radiology · Jan 2010

    Case Reports

    Air around the pulmonary vein: an unusual finding in a patient with blunt thoracic trauma.

    • Settimo Caruso, Luigi Maruzzelli, Roberto Miraglia, Mariapina Milazzo, Angelo Luca, and Bruno Gridelli.
    • Department of Radiology, Mediterranean Institute for Transplantation and Advanced Specialized Therapies (IsMeTT), Palermo, Italy. secaruso@ismett.edu
    • Emerg Radiol. 2010 Jan 1;17(1):63-4.

    AbstractTraumatic thoracic injuries and related complications have a mortality of 15.5-25%. We present a case of a 30-year-old with blunt thoracic trauma, massive edema of the lung, and laceration of the middle lobe, associated with air around the pulmonary vein, evaluated with multidetector computed tomography. To the best of our knowledge, air around the pulmonary vein has not been previously described in the literature.

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