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Case report
Flitting radiographic shadows: an unusual presentation of cancer in the lungs
Abstract
Tumour involvement of pulmonary blood vessels occurs frequently in advanced lung cancer and occasionally may cause pulmonary infarction. A case is reported of diffuse obstruction of pulmonary arteries by cancer in which no primary tumour was found, and which presented as flitting radiographic opacities due to pulmonary infarction.
- pulmonary infarcts
- pulmonary arterial tumour embolism
- cancer
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