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. 2022 Dec 19;48(5):e20220266.
doi: 10.36416/1806-3756/e20220266.

Takayasu's arteritis with pulmonary artery involvement

[Article in English, Portuguese]
Marina de Moraes Carvalho da Silva  1 , Rosana Souza Rodrigues  1   2 , Edson Marchiori  1
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Takayasu's arteritis with pulmonary artery involvement

[Article in English, Portuguese]
Marina de Moraes Carvalho da Silva et al. J Bras Pneumol. .
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Figure 1. Pulmonary CT angiography images with maximum intensity projection (MIP; A and B), three-dimensional volume-rendered (C and D), and sagittal MIP (E) reconstruction showing dilation of the pulmonary artery trunk (asterisk in C) and the right pulmonary artery and its lower lobe branches (yellow arrows in A and D), substantial stenosis of the left pulmonary artery tree (green arrows in B and C), and diffuse and irregular aneurysm of the descending thoracic aorta (green arrowheads in E). Coronal MIP reconstruction of a post-contrast T1-weighted fat-saturated carotid magnetic resonance angiography sequence (F) showing diffuse narrowing of the left carotid artery (yellow arrowheads). Note also stenosis in the emergence of the left subclavian artery (green arrow).
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