A Case Report of Foreign Body Embolization

Prostate brachytherapy (BT) seed embolization to the lung is a rare complication, with <1% of all seeds migrating post-implantation. Here, we present the case of a 63-year-old male who presented with a history of chest pain and intermittent dyspnea at rest for the last four months.

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Autores principales: Boppana, Hemanth, Teelucksingh, Shravan, Boppana, L K Teja, Sakhamuri, Sateesh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
Materias:
Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6692106/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31423393
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4917
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author Boppana, Hemanth
Teelucksingh, Shravan
Boppana, L K Teja
Sakhamuri, Sateesh
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description Prostate brachytherapy (BT) seed embolization to the lung is a rare complication, with <1% of all seeds migrating post-implantation. Here, we present the case of a 63-year-old male who presented with a history of chest pain and intermittent dyspnea at rest for the last four months.
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spelling pubmed-66921062019-08-18 A Case Report of Foreign Body Embolization Boppana, Hemanth Teelucksingh, Shravan Boppana, L K Teja Sakhamuri, Sateesh Cureus Internal Medicine Prostate brachytherapy (BT) seed embolization to the lung is a rare complication, with <1% of all seeds migrating post-implantation. Here, we present the case of a 63-year-old male who presented with a history of chest pain and intermittent dyspnea at rest for the last four months. Cureus 2019-06-17 /pmc/articles/PMC6692106/ /pubmed/31423393 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4917 Text en Copyright © 2019, Boppana et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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