TY  - JOUR
T1  - Aberrant left pulmonary artery presenting as a mediastinal mass: Report of a case in an adult
AU  - Kale MK, Rafferty RE, Carton RW, Fenyes I, Villanueva W
Y1  - 1970/01/01
N1  - 10.1001/archinte.1970.00310010123013
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 121
EP  - 125
VL  - 125
IS  - 1
N2  - In persons with an anomalous or aberrant left pulmonary artery, the main pulmonary trunk rises normally from the right ventricle and passes upward and to the right of the trachea in the vicinity of the carina (Fig 1). At this point the aberrant left pulmonary artery branches off, passes between the trachea and esophagus, and enters the hilum of the left lung. During its course it compresses the trachea, esophagus, and the right main stem bronchus to a variable degree.This anomaly has long been recognized in children 1-3 and has been associated with high morbidity and mortality.3 To our knowledge, the patient presented in this study is the first individual suffering from aberrant left pulmonary artery known to have survived until adult life without surgical treatment in childhood.Our patient presented two particularly interesting features. (1) The aberrant artery was seen as a mediastinal mass on the plain
SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinte.1970.00310010123013
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1970.00310010123013
ER  -