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Acute Massive Pulmonary Embolism in a Jehovah's Witness
Blaustein Howard S. , MD, Schur Israel , MD, Shapiro Janet M. , MD CHEST Volume 117, Issue 2, Pages (February 2000) DOI: /chest Copyright © 2000 The American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions
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Figure 1 Ventilation (technetium Tc 99m-diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid aerosol)/perfusion (technetium 99m-macro-aggregated albumin) scan on admission. Anterior ventilation scan (top) is normal, and perfusion scan (bottom) shows almost absent perfusion to the right lung. CHEST , DOI: ( /chest ) Copyright © 2000 The American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions
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Figure 2 Anterior perfusion scan 2 days following catheter thrombectomy shows improved right lung perfusion. Small subsegmental perfusion defects may have resulted from distal embolization of the right main pulmonary artery thrombus. CHEST , DOI: ( /chest ) Copyright © 2000 The American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions
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