Affiliation:
1. Vascular Diagnostic Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
Abstract
We report an abdominal aortic duplex case with an uncommon presentation of idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis that was confirmed by periaortic inflammatory tissue biopsy. This case was an excellent presentation of how, with an increased awareness by the sonographer, the choice of transducer can have an effect on subtle pathology changes, such as inflammatory tissue, on ultrasound examinations.
Subject
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging