Abstract
• A 62-year-old woman with multiple neurofibromas of the lung was found to have severe hypoxemia due to right-to-left shunting within the tumors. Pulmonary angiograms demonstrated that the major area of shunting was in a large tumor mass in the right lower lobe. Pathologically the neurofibromas were vascular with hyperplastic small arteries and arterioles and large dilated veins. Multiple pulmonary neurofibromas are rare; and, to our knowledge, never previously reported in association with pulmonary arteriovenous shunting.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1618-1619 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Archives of Internal Medicine |
| Volume | 146 |
| Issue number | 8 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Aug 1986 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Internal Medicine
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O’donohue, W. J., Edland, J., Mohiuddin, S. M., & Schultz, R. D. (1986). Multiple Pulmonary Neurofibromas With Hypoxemia: Occurrence due to Pulmonary Arteriovenous Shunts Within the Tumors. Archives of Internal Medicine, 146(8), 1618-1619. https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1986.00360200198032