Delayed post-lobectomy pulmonary artery stump thrombosis

We present a 67 year old male patient who underwent VATS right upper lobectomy with en bloc chest wall resection and right lower lobe superior segmentectomy for atypical Ewing Sarcoma. Serial chest CT scan done more than two years after the initial resection showed a new filling defect in the right...

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Autores principales: Sawalha, Leith, Mador, M. Jeffrey
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4501507/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26236597
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2015.04.003
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description We present a 67 year old male patient who underwent VATS right upper lobectomy with en bloc chest wall resection and right lower lobe superior segmentectomy for atypical Ewing Sarcoma. Serial chest CT scan done more than two years after the initial resection showed a new filling defect in the right upper pulmonary artery stump. A repeat chest CT scan after three months of oral anticoagulation showed complete resolution of the filling defect.
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spelling pubmed-45015072015-08-01 Delayed post-lobectomy pulmonary artery stump thrombosis Sawalha, Leith Mador, M. Jeffrey Respir Med Case Rep Case Report We present a 67 year old male patient who underwent VATS right upper lobectomy with en bloc chest wall resection and right lower lobe superior segmentectomy for atypical Ewing Sarcoma. Serial chest CT scan done more than two years after the initial resection showed a new filling defect in the right upper pulmonary artery stump. A repeat chest CT scan after three months of oral anticoagulation showed complete resolution of the filling defect. Elsevier 2015-04-24 /pmc/articles/PMC4501507/ /pubmed/26236597 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2015.04.003 Text en © 2015 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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