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Treatment of a large pulmonary artery pseudoaneurysm secondary to fungal infection using Amplatzer plugs: New embolisation devices for the management of haemoptysis

Pulmonary artery pseudoaneurysms (PAP) may result in life threatening haemoptysis but are fortunately uncommon. Most are caused by trauma, iatrogenic injury or infection. We describe a case of large PAP secondary to fungal infection in an immunocompromised patient, which was successfully treated per...

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Autores principales: Chellamuthu, Santhi, Bottomley, John R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4150616/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26057127
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmedc.2011.07.002