Direct vascular signs |
Eccentric wall-adherent filling defect(s), which may calcify; different from the central filling defects within a distended lumen, which are the hallmark of acute PE |
Abrupt tapering and truncation |
Complete occlusion and pouch defects |
Intimal irregularity |
Linear intraluminal filling defects (intravascular webs and bands) |
Stenosis and post-stenotic dilatation |
Vascular tortuosity |
Indirect vascular signs |
Significant RV hypertrophy, RA dilatation |
Pericardial effusion |
Dilatation of pulmonary artery (>29 mm in men and >27 mm in women) and/or calcifications of pulmonary artery |
Systemic collateral arterial supply (bronchial arterial collaterals towards pulmonary post-obstructive vessels) |
Parenchymal changes |
Mosaic attenuation of the lung parenchyma resulting in geographical variation in perfusion |