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Thorax 2008;63:1122 doi:10.1136/thx.2007.090373
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Intracardiac extension of lung cancer via the pulmonary vein

  1. M-T Lin1,3,
  2. S-C Ku1,
  3. M-Z Wu2,
  4. C-J Yu1
  1. 1
    Division of Chest Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
  2. 2
    Department of Pathology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
  3. 3
    Department of Internal Medicine, Ear Eastern Memorial Hospital, Taipei County, Taiwan
  1. Dr S-C Ku, Division of Chest Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, No 7 Chung-Shan South Road, Taipei 100, Taiwan; scku1015{at}ntu.edu.tw
  • Accepted 19 November 2007

A 69-year-old male heavy smoker had intermittent haemoptysis for 1 month. He did not have exertional dyspnoea, palpitations or chest pain. Chest radiography showed a mass over the right lower lung (RLL). A CT scan of the chest revealed a dumbbell-shaped tumour with an irregular mass in the RLL field, with a tubular part extending along the right inferior …

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