SWYER–JAMES SYNDROME: DEMONSTRATION BY 64-SLICE 3D MDCT ANGIOGRAPHY AND CORONAL MPR CT IMAGING

Year 2008, Volume: 5 Issue: 3, 194 - 197, 01.09.2008

M Emin Sakarya Osman Koç Olgun Arıbaş Orhan Özbek Yahya Paksoy Alaaddin Nayman Kemal Ödev

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SWYER–JAMES SYNDROME: DEMONSTRATION BY 64-SLICE 3D MDCT ANGIOGRAPHY AND CORONAL MPR CT IMAGING

Abstract

Selcuk University, Faculty of Medicine, Departments of Radiology1 and Thoracic Surgery2, Konya, Turkey The 64-slice three dimensional (3D) multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) angiography and high resolution coronal multiplanar reformation (MPR) computed tomography (CT) images in inspiration and expiration were performed in a patient suspected of having Swyer – James syndrome. The right pulmonary system was normal. The left lung was small and hyperlucent. The left pulmonary arterial system was small but patent. Both lung contained bronchiectasis. High resolution coronal MPR CT images confirmed air trapping in the left lung and the right upper lobe. A diagnosis of Swyer-James syndrome was made

Keywords

Lung, Multi-slice helical CT, Swyer – James syndrome

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