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Non heamoptytic massive Rasmussen's pulmonary artery aneurysm caused by aggressive cavitating squamous cell carcinoma metastasis

Chiruganti MV, Dattatreya PS, Shinkar PG, Sharma K, Prabhakar Rao VV

Indian journal of nuclear medicine : IJNM : the official journal of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, India, 2015

Abstract

The authors report an extremely rare occurrence of a massive aneurysm of a major pulmonary artery branch vessel caused by adjacent necrotizing aggressive squamous cell carcinoma metastatic mediastinal nodes. Despite the huge size, there was no hemoptysis due to the walling off effect by the necrotic nodes.

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