Left hilar mass in a 62-year-old man: severe pulmonary valvular stenosis with a poststenotic aneurysm

South Med J. 1996 Aug;89(8):824-5. doi: 10.1097/00007611-199608000-00016.

Abstract

We describe a patient who had a left hilar mass initially diagnosed as probable bronchogenic carcinoma. When a paradoxic arterial embolus led to further investigation, the hilar mass was found to be a poststenotic dilatation due to a severe pulmonary valve stenosis. Percutaneous balloon valvuloplasty of the pulmonary valve was successfully done, and the patient is well 2 years after the procedure.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aneurysm / diagnostic imaging*
  • Aneurysm / etiology
  • Carcinoma, Bronchogenic / diagnostic imaging
  • Catheterization
  • Diagnostic Errors
  • Humans
  • Lung Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Popliteal Artery
  • Pulmonary Artery*
  • Pulmonary Valve Stenosis / complications*
  • Pulmonary Valve Stenosis / therapy
  • Radiography
  • Thromboembolism / etiology