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Pulmonary infarction from central venous air embolism mimicking round pneumonia
  1. S-C Ku1,
  2. Y-F Wei1,
  3. L-C Lin2
  1. 1Division of Chest Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
  2. 2Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
  1. Correspondence to:
    Dr Lung-Chun Lin
    Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, No 7 Chung-Shan South Road, Taipei 100, Taiwan; anniejou{at}ms28.hinet.net

https://doi.org/10.1136/thx.2006.067652

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