The Role of Pulmonary Veins in Cancer Progression from a Computed Tomography Viewpoint

Figure 6

Mixed central and peripheral thrombotic and parenchymal pulmonary lesions. The patient is an 87-year-old women with hepatocellular carcinoma. She felt dyspnea. A chest X-ray (a) shows a low right lung lesion. A CT scan (b) reveals abnormal tumor/thrombotic lesions within the right superior pulmonary vein with extension into the left atrium and into the peripheral lung parenchymal tissue.

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