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Aortic unfolding

radiologic sign

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 25, 2025
Entity authorityQ4778762 ↗
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Aortic unfolding is an abnormality visible on a chest X-ray, that shows widening of the mediastinum which may mimic the appearance of a thoracic aortic aneurysm.

With aging, the ascending portion of the thoracic aorta increases in length by approximately 12% per decade, whereas the diameter increases by just 3% per decade. This elongation causes the ascending aorta to appear as a vertical shadow on the left heart border. Unfolding is often associated with aortic calcification which implies aortic degeneration and hypertension.

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“Aortic unfolding” enters the record as radiologic sign. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Aortic, unfolding and radiologic can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Aortic unfolding” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.