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Chest clinic
Images in thorax
Extrathoracic proof of intrathoracic trouble
  1. C Dickhoff1,
  2. K J Hartemink1,2,
  3. D J Slebos3,
  4. P Symersky4,
  5. A Vonk-Noordegraaf5
  1. 1Department of Surgery, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  2. 2Department of Surgery, Netherlands Cancer Institute-Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  3. 3Department of Pulmonology, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
  4. 4Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  5. 5Department of Pulmonology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  1. Correspondence to Dr C Dickhoff, Department of Surgery, VU University Medical Center, 7F-005, postbox 7057, Amsterdam 1007 MB, The Netherlands; c.dickhoff{at}vumc.nl,

https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2013-203847

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    • Correction notice This article has been corrected since it was published Online First. The author affiliations have been updated.

    • Contributors CD, PS and AVN conceived the idea for the manuscript. CD, KJH wrote the manuscript, CD and PS made and selected photographs, DJS and AVN critically revised the manuscript.

    • Competing interests None.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

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