Thoracic Complications in Behçet’s Disease: Imaging Findings

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25-year-old man with multiple pulmonary artery aneurysms who had hemoptysis and chest pain with known BD. (a) Coronal maximum-intensity projection CT (curved multiplanar reconstruction) image showing multiple bilateral pulmonary artery aneurysms and mural thrombi (arrows). (b) Large right pulmonary artery aneurysm (long arrow) is partially lined by thrombus and densely opacified on a volumetric high-resolution CT. Lung window scan at the level (Figure 5(a)) shows the right pulmonary artery aneurysm with circumferential ground glass opacification because of surrounding haemorrhage (arrow): this finding was attributed to intraparenchymal haemorrhage. (c) Chest CT scans (lung window) obtained at different levels demonstrate multiple subpleural nodular infiltrations in the periphery of the right and left lung (arrows).

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