Korean Journal of Radiology

The Korean Society of Radiology (대한영상의학회)
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Spontaneous Obliteration of Right Ventricular Pseudoaneurysm after Blunt Chest Trauma: Diagnosis and Follow-Up with Multidetector CT

  • Kang, Taekyung (Department of Emergency Medicine, Sanggye Paik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine) ;
  • Kang, Mi-Jin (Department of Radiology, Sanggye Paik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine) ;
  • Kim, Jae Hyung (Department of Radiology, Sanggye Paik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine)
  • Received : 2013.10.22
  • Accepted : 2014.01.24
  • Published : 2014.06.01
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Abstract

Right ventricular (RV) pseudoaneurysm caused by trauma is very rare. We report a case of RV pseudoaneurysm which resolved without surgical treatment in a patient who survived a falling accident. Echocardiography failed to identify the pseudoaneurysm. Electrocardiography-gated CT showed a 17-mm-sized saccular pseusoaneurysm arsing from the RV outflow tract with a narrow neck. Follow-up CT after two months showed spontaneous obliteration of the lesion.

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