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Multiple, Enlarged and Tortuous Pulmonary Vessels – a Straight Forward Diagnosis?

Professor Helmut Ringl, MD*; Paul Apfaltrer, MD*; and Maria Schoder, MD**|2016-10-18
After an abnormal finding on a plain film a chest CT was performed for further evaluation.

* Division of General and Pediatric Radiology;
** Division of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image guided Therapy, General Hospital of Vienna (AKH), Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

A 31-year-old female patient with a history of Crohn’s disease presented herself with an abnormal finding on a plain film due to a recent pneumonia. CT of the chest was required for further evaluation.

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