A case of racemose hemangioma of the right bronchial artery and intercostal to pulmonary arterial anastomosis

Abstract

We reported a case of racemose hemangioma of the bronchial artery and intercostal to pulmonary arterial anastomosis. A 67-year-old woman was admitted because of repeated hemoptysis. Bronchoscopic examination revealed a torous lesion of the right B7 bronchus. Intercostal angiography demonstrated communications between right dilated, meandered intercostal arteries and right pulmonary artery. Bronchial angiography showed dilatation and convolution of the right bronchial artery. Angiographic embolization of the right bronchial artery and the right intercostal artery was underwent. There was no recurrence of hemoptysis one year after the embolization procedure. We think that angiographic embolization is an effective method of treatment of hemoptysis due to racemose hemangioma of the bronchial artery and intercostal to pulmonary arterial anastomosis.

Atelectasis of the right medial basal segment mimicking primary lung cancer in an asthmatic patient

“…Suspicion of malignancy arose due to persistent bloody sputum, a paramediastinal consolidation on chest CT scan and a large mucous plug completely occluding the right medial basal bronchus on bronchoscopy. Whereas, tumour in relation to the right medial basal bronchus is rare and only few cases are reported in the literature (2–4). Glazer et al (5) described the CT manifestations of bronchial impaction in four patients with lobar collapse.…”