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Volume 133, Issue 6 , Pages 1678-1679 , June 2007

A pseudoaneurysmal cyst in the pulmonary artery secondary to lung suppuration

Hideo Ichimura, MD
- Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Tsukuba Medical Center Hospital, Ibaraki, Japan
- Address for reprints: Hideo Ichimura, MD, Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Tsukuba Medical Center Hospital, 1-3-1 Amakubo, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki 305-8558, Japan.
Hiroo Okazaki, MD
- Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Tsukuba Medical Center Hospital, Ibaraki, Japan
Kazunori Kikuchi, MD
- Department of Pathology, Tsukuba Medical Center Hospital, Ibaraki, Japan
Toshihiko Saitoh, MD
- Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Tsukuba Gakuen Hospital, Ibaraki, Japan
Norihiro Haraguchi, MD
- Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Tsukuba Gakuen Hospital, Ibaraki, Japan
Masataka Onizuka, MD
- Department of Surgery, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.

A, Plain chest CT showed consolidation in the middle lobe with unstructural gas formation. B, Enhanced CT taken after 1-week administration of antibiotics clearly showed a round lesion enhanced equall

A, Plain chest CT showed consolidation in the middle lobe with unstructural gas formation. B, Enhanced CT taken after 1-week administration of antibiotics clearly showed a round lesion enhanced equally to the pulmonary vessel (arrow).
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A, Intraoperative photograph showed a grayish, pyogenic right middle lobe (surrounded by arrow heads). B, A probe of the cut surface of the resected specimen revealed a connection between the cavitary

A, Intraoperative photograph showed a grayish, pyogenic right middle lobe (surrounded by arrow heads). B, A probe of the cut surface of the resected specimen revealed a connection between the cavitary lumen (the cavitary margin is denoted by arrowheads) and the pulmonary artery.
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