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Pulmonary varix mimicking pulmonary arteriovenous malformation in a patient with Turner syndrome.

Maillard JO, Cottin V, Etienne-Mastroïanni B, Frolet JM, Revel D, Cordier JF

Service de Pneumologie, Centre des Maladies Orphelines Pulmonaires, Hôpital Cardiovasculaire et Pneumologique Louis Pradel, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon, France.

A 36-year-old asymptomatic female with Turner syndrome was referred for a 3-cm opacity of the left lung detected by routine chest X-ray. A computed tomography scan of the chest suggested a vascular lesion such as pulmonary arteriovenous malformation, and transcatheter embolotherapy was considered. The lack of a right-to-left shunt on contrast echocardiography led to suspect an alternate diagnosis. Magnetic resonance imaging and pulmonary angiography eventually demonstrated a pulmonary varix associated with a partial anomalous pulmonary venous return. Contrast echocardiography may help to distinguish between pulmonary varix and arteriovenous malformation.

Published 2 January 2007 in Respiration, 74(1): 110-3.
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