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Neurofibroma of the Ascending Aorta Combined with Aortic Dissection

Neurofibroma of the Ascending Aorta Combined with Aortic Dissection REVIEWS AND COMMENTARY IMAGES IN RADIOLOGY Neurofibroma of the Ascending Aorta Combined with Aortic Dissection Lan Shang, MD • Weifang Kong, MD From the Department of Radiology, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, No 32 W Section 2, First Ring Rd, Chengdu 610072, China. Received September 21, 2023; revision requested October 31; final revision received December 7; accepted December 18. Address correspondence to W.K. (email: [email protected]). Conflicts of interest are listed at the end of this article. Radiology 2024; 311(1):e232355 https://doi.org/10.1148/radiol.232355 © RSNA, 2024 • • Images in a 33-year-old man with neurofibroma in the ascending aorta. (A) Coronal CT angiogram demonstrates a small dissection (solid black arrows) of the aortic root (dashed black arrows) and a focus (white arrows) with intermediate attenuation on the left extending from the aortic root superiorly to the aortic arch. = Ascending aorta. (B) Axial CT angiogram shows the crescentic thickening (arrows)—with a thickness of more than 15 mm and attenuation of 64 HU—that was eventually revealed to represent a neurofibroma. (C) Axial T2-weighted cardiac MRI scan shows crescentic structure (arrow) in the left anterior wall with intermediate signal intensity consistent with soft tissue. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Radiology Radiological Society of North America, Inc.

Neurofibroma of the Ascending Aorta Combined with Aortic Dissection

Shang, Lan; Kong, Weifang
Radiology , Volume 311 (1): 1 – Apr 2, 2024
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REVIEWS AND COMMENTARY IMAGES IN RADIOLOGY Neurofibroma of the Ascending Aorta Combined with Aortic Dissection Lan Shang, MD • Weifang Kong, MD From the Department of Radiology, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, No 32 W Section 2, First Ring Rd, Chengdu 610072, China. Received September 21, 2023; revision requested October 31; final revision received December 7; accepted December 18. Address correspondence to W.K. (email: [email protected]). Conflicts of interest are listed at the end of this article. Radiology 2024; 311(1):e232355 https://doi.org/10.1148/radiol.232355 © RSNA, 2024 • • Images in a 33-year-old man with neurofibroma in the ascending aorta. (A) Coronal CT angiogram demonstrates a small dissection (solid black arrows) of the aortic root (dashed black arrows) and a focus (white arrows) with intermediate attenuation on the left extending from the aortic root superiorly to the aortic arch. = Ascending aorta. (B) Axial CT angiogram shows the crescentic thickening (arrows)—with a thickness of more than 15 mm and attenuation of 64 HU—that was eventually revealed to represent a neurofibroma. (C) Axial T2-weighted cardiac MRI scan shows crescentic structure (arrow) in the left anterior wall with intermediate signal intensity consistent with soft tissue.

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Published: Apr 2, 2024

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