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Venous aneurysm not associated with other cardiovascular disease or trauma is a rare condition. A case is presented of bilateral jugular and mediastinal venous aneurysm, which was detected and depicted to a full extent by means of a blood-pool study with 99mTc-fibrinogen, undertaken because of concurrent thrombocytopenia. The aneurysm was confirmed by subsequent X-ray angiography and surgery. In radioisotopic blood pool study venous aneurysm, unlike arterialor aortic aneurysm, may be filled to the equilibrium state later than the appearance of the cardiac pool.
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Furukawa, T., Yamada, T., Mori, Y. et al. A case of aneurysm of the jugular and mediastinal veins — radioisotopic blood pool study of venous aneurysm. Eur J Nucl Med 9, 196–198 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00251473
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