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PLATE CXR-AORTA-WIDE · 2 SOURCE FILES

Aortic dissection

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Aortic dissection

Exact CXR finding match: marked mediastinal widening is explicit in the caption and is associated with confirmed aortic pathology. The case diagnosis is aortoesophageal fistula rather than uncomplicated acute dissection, so retain that etiology in the display caption.

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Masahiro Kobayashi Sr.; Kiyomitsu Fukaguchi; Hiroshi Koyama; Azusa Taguchi; Ichiro Sekine; Hiroshi Yamagami · CC BY 4.0 · inherited_catalog_not_refetched

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Aortic dissection

The widened mediastinum is suggestive rather than diagnostic; definitive aortic imaging is still required.

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Prachi Yadav, Aman Agrawal, Sanket S Bakshi, Richa Chaudhary · CC BY 3.0 · inherited_catalog_not_refetched

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