A 40 YO WOMAN in ANNUAL HEALTH CHECK UP, SHE HAS RECOGNIZED DULL LEFT CHEST PAIN FOR MANY YEARS.
US1: IN CROSSED SECTION OF SPLEEN AND LEFT LOWER PULMONARY LOBE INCIDENTALLY NOTES THAT A CYSTIC LESION IN LOWER LEFT LUNG TISSUE AND PLEURAL EFFUSION.
US2: CDUS IN THIS CYSTIC LESION REPRESENTS YIN-YANG SIGN.
US3: SPECTRAL DOPPLER TRACE FROM THIS CYSTIC CONFIRMING ARTERIAL BLOOD FLOW.
US 4, US 5: THERE IS A PULMONARY ARTERIAL AND VENOUS FLOW BESIDE THE CYST.
MSCT CE:
CT1, CT2: FRONTAL VIEW CONFIRMS AN ANEURYSM IN THE LEFT LOWER LOBE WITH AN FEEDING ARTERY AND A DRAINING VEIN.
RADIOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS IS A PULMONARY ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION CASE.
OPEN SURGERY REMOVED LOWER LOBE OF LEFT LUNG AND THE PULMONARY AVM.
MICROSCOPIC REPORT IS HAEMORRHAGE OF PULMONARY VASCULAR CONGESTION.
Conclusion:
This is a pulmonary AVM case incidentally found out in a pleural effusion that was discovered by ultrasound and confirmed by MSCT later.
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