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Echocardiography
; 18(2): 175-7, 2001 Feb.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-11262543
ABSTRACT
Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is an excellent tool for the diagnosis of thoracic aortic pathology. However, not all lesions of the aortic wall represent primary pathology of the aorta. This case presents an elderly, hypertensive patient with back pain and crescentic thickening of the aortic wall that proved to represent external aortic infiltration by lung cancer. Invasion of the aortic wall mimicking intramural hematoma should be considered the differential diagnosis of patients with dissection-like symptoms and crescentic aortic lesions.