Rumbak M J, Scott M, Walsh F W
Department of Medicine, University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, USA.
South Med J. 1996 Aug;89(8):824-5. doi: 10.1097/00007611-199608000-00016.
We describe a patient who had a left hilar mass initially diagnosed as probable bronchogenic carcinoma. When a paradoxic arterial embolus led to further investigation, the hilar mass was found to be a poststenotic dilatation due to a severe pulmonary valve stenosis. Percutaneous balloon valvuloplasty of the pulmonary valve was successfully done, and the patient is well 2 years after the procedure.