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Squamous Cell Carcinoma Masquerading as a Thoracic Intramural Hematoma
Author(s) -
Draznin Julia,
Spencer Kirk T.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1046/j.1540-8175.2001.00175.x
Subject(s) - hematoma , basal cell , carcinoma , medicine , general surgery , radiology , pathology
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.