Non-contrast-enhanced Magnetic Resonance Angiography Using Time-spatial Labeling Inversion Pulse Technique for Differentiation Between Pulmonary Varix and Arteriovenous Malformation

Overview

Journal Radiol Case Rep

Publisher Elsevier

Specialty Radiology

Date 2017 Aug 23

PMID 28828102

Citations 1

Authors

Kohei Hamamoto

Emiko Chiba

Katsuhiko Matsuura

Tomohisa Okochi

Keisuke Tanno

Osamu Tanaka

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Abstract

Pulmonary varix is a rare entity that presents as a focal aneurysmal dilatation of the pulmonary vein and is frequently mistaken for a pulmonary arteriovenous malformation (PAVM). It is important to distinguish between pulmonary varix and PAVM because the former does not usually require treatment. We present the findings of non-contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography with the time-spatial labeling inversion pulse technique in case of pulmonary varix and PAVM and the utility of this method for differentiating between these diseases.

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