Clinical Pediatrics: Open Access
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Shugo Komatsu

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• Case Report
  Usefulness and Limitations of Multidetector Computed Tomography Angiography for Visualization of Thoracic Aberrant Arteries in Neonates
  Author(s): Tetsuya Mitsunaga and Shugo Komatsu Tetsuya Mitsunaga and Shugo Komatsu
  
  We describe two neonatal patients where the final diagnosis differed in whom multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) angiography could clearly visualize the intrathoracic aberrant artery. The first case was a infant with a right intrathoracic tumor detected by fetal sonography. MDCT was performed 13 days after birth at a weight of 3492 g. An aberrant arteries arising from the Th10-high aorta toward the right lower lobe was detected. A right lower lobectomy was performed in the diagnosis of pulmonary sequestration. The latter was an infant born at 28 weeks of gestation. MDCT was performed to investigate an abnormal right upper lobar shadow 92 days after birth at a weight of 2906 g. An aberrant arteries arising from the Th5-high aorta toward the right upper lobe was detected. We determined the artery considered aberrant was an inflammatory dilated bronchial artery by conventional angio.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2572-0775.1000123

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