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Aberrant Left Pulmonary Artery Presenting as a Mediastinal MassReport of a Case in an Adult
Madhav K. Kale, MD;
Robert E. Rafferty, MD;
Robert W. Carton, MD;
Imre Fenyes, MD;
Wolfgang Villanueva, MD
Arch Intern Med. 1970;125(1):121-125.
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In persons with an anomalous or aberrant left pulmonary artery, the main pulmonary trunk rises normally from the right ventricle and passes upward and to the right of the trachea in the vicinity of the carina (Fig 1). At this point the aberrant left pulmonary artery branches off, passes between the trachea and esophagus, and enters the hilum of the left lung. During its course it compresses the trachea, esophagus, and the right main stem bronchus to a variable degree.
This anomaly has long been recognized in children 1-3 and has been associated with high morbidity and mortality.3 To our knowledge, the patient presented in this study is the first individual suffering from aberrant left pulmonary artery known to have survived until adult life without surgical treatment in childhood.
Our patient presented two particularly interesting features. (1) The aberrant artery was seen as a mediastinal mass on the plain
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Author Affiliations
Chicago; Chicago, provided the autopsy report.
From the departments of medicine and radiology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, and the Research and Educational Hospitals of the University of Illinois, Chicago.
Footnotes
Received for publication March 5, 1969; accepted May 27.
Reprint requests to 840 S Wood St, Chicago 60612 (Dr. Kale).
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