• Title of article

    A 21 Years Old Woman, with Chest Pain and Cardiac dextroposition pulmunary hypoplasia orScimitar Syndrome

  • Author/Authors

    Azad Tehrani M، Moin نويسنده Pulmonologist, Internist, Heart and Lung Division, Logman Hakeem General Teaching Hospital,Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran , , Agin، Kh نويسنده Heart and Lung Division, Logman Hakeem General Teaching Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran ,

  • Issue Information
    فصلنامه با شماره پیاپی 0 سال 2012
  • Pages
    3
  • From page
    110
  • To page
    112
  • Abstract
    Background: Physicians seldom encounter chest x-ray of adult patients diagnosed with dextrocardia. Case presentation: Here, we present the case of a 21-year-old woman who referred to the hospital with the clinical diagnosis of dextrocardia but, she has pulmonary hypoplasia and this rare disease in adults may be a component of scimitar syndrome and scimitar sign is not pathognomonic to define the syndrome. MR angiography was done, but finally the diagnosis was hypoplasia of right upper lobe and aplasia of middle lobe. Conclusion: As lung hypoplasia is rare in adults, some cases are misdiagnosed as dextrocardia on chest x-ray.
  • Journal title
    International Journal of Medical Toxicology and Forensic Medicine
  • Serial Year
    2012
  • Journal title
    International Journal of Medical Toxicology and Forensic Medicine
  • Record number

    2398554