Girgis R, Kavuru M S, Miller M, Spizarny D
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit.
Chest. 1992 Jul;102(1):311-3. doi: 10.1378/chest.102.1.311.
Proximal pulmonary artery aneurysms (PAAs) are rare. Most are associated with secondary pulmonary hypertension or a variety of rare systemic disorders. An asymptomatic adult patient presented with bilateral hilar enlargement on a routine chest roentgenogram. Computed tomography of the chest revealed 5 cm bilateral proximal PAAs with a normal pulmonary trunk. The clinician should consider proximal PAA in the differential diagnosis of hilar enlargement.