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Dissecting aneurysm of the aorta is often seen; similar changes in the pulmonary artery are rare. In the German literature they are unknown. 11 previously described cases have been compiled with their clinical and pathological records, and a new added. The patient, a 45 year old woman, suffered from pulmonary hypertension which resulted in medionecrosis and a large aneurysm of the trunk of the pulmonary artery. She died of haemopericardium after rupture of the artery in two stages, with a tear of 8 cm in the trunk which reached to the bifurcation of the vessel.
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Lüchtrath, H. Dissecting aneurysm of the pulmonary artery. Virchows Arch. A Path. Anat. and Histol. 391, 241–247 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00437600
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