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Today’s radiographs belong to a 46-year-old man.
Preoperative for knee surgery.
What do you see?
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Findings: PA chest radiograph show increased size of both hila (A, arrows), more evident in the right side. There is also convexity of the aorto-pulmonary window (A, red arrow). The findings are highly suspicious of widespread lymphadenopathy, confirmed in the lateral view (B, arrow). There is also anterior bowing of the posterior tracheal wall by a rounded opacity in Raider´s triangle (B, red arrows).
Enhanced axial CT confirms enlarged hilar lymph nodes (C, arrows) as well as an adenopathy in the A-P window (D-E, red arrows).
The retrotracheal opacity was due to an aberrant subclavian artery arising from a Kommerel diverticulum (F-H, red arrows).
The patient had been diagnosed of sarcoidosis in 2015. Follow-up CTs in 2017 and 2019 did not show any change.
Final diagnosis: Sarcoidosis with an incidental aberrant right subclavian artery.
Congratulations to Manal Gebril, who was the first to make the diagnosis and to Gaborini, who described the aberrant right subclavian artery.
Teaching point: remember satisfaction of search. Some of you missed the occupation of Raider´s triangle and nobody mentioned the convex A-P window.