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pulmonary vein stenosis

Friday 12 March 2004

Synopsis

Bilateral lesions in extrapulmonary and intrapulmonary veins

- intimal fibromuscular proliferation
- medial fibromuscular proliferation
- Some of the fibromuscular proliferation were eccentric, resembling organized thrombi
- focal organizing thrombus
- anastomosis between pulmonary veins and bronchial vessels as well as small pulmonary arteries
- bilateral hypertensive arteriopathy

References

- Sun CC, Doyle T, Ringel RE. Pulmonary vein stenosis. Hum Pathol. 1995 Aug;26(8):880-6. PMID: 7635450