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. 2019 Dec 4;10:114. doi: 10.1186/s13244-019-0789-4

Fig. 28.

Fig. 28

Railway track sign. The coronal CT image well depicts linear and centric filling defect (white arrow) inside the lumen of an arterial lung vessel—due to acute embolism; the contrast, surrounding the central endoluminal defect of opacification, reproduces a railway track appearance. The railway track sign is very similar to the polo mint sign, which instead describes the thrombosed vessel displayed according to an axial plane