Pulmonary Telangiectasis
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Cavernous pulmonary telangiectasis.
A cavernous pulmonary telangiectasis is a wide peripheral communication between a dilated, tortuous, thin-walled pulmonary artery and the corresponding pulmonary veins. It is part of a more or less generalized condition of telangiectasia in which small telangiectases are scattered in variable distribution and numbers in the lungs and elsewhere in the body. The striking appearance and obvious cl...
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Familial epistaxis is often encountered by Otolaryngologists. Osier in 1901 described a triad of symptoms consisting of epistaxis, positive family history and multiple telangiectasia. Harrison (1957) regards this phenomena as 'rare' and Mc Caffrey et al. (1977) calls it unusual Multiple Telangiectasia, the cause of which is unknown, has a dominant familial trait. It may be very easily missed wh...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Thorax
سال: 1958
ISSN: 0040-6376
DOI: 10.1136/thx.13.4.321