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Chest clinic
Images in thorax
Pseudoaneurysm of the pulmonary artery with massive haemoptysis due to an invasive pulmonary mucormycosis
  1. Alberto Lopez-Pastorini1,
  2. Aris Koryllos1,
  3. Michael Brockmann2,
  4. Wolfram Windisch3,
  5. Erich Stoelben1
  1. 1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Cologne-Merheim Hospital, Kliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH, Witten-Herdecke University Hospital, Cologne, Germany
  2. 2Department of Pathology, Cologne-Merheim Hospital, Kliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH, Witten-Herdecke University Hospital, Cologne, Germany
  3. 3Department of Pneumology, Cologne-Merheim Hospital, Kliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH, Witten-Herdecke University Hospital, Cologne, Germany
  1. Correspondence to Dr Alberto Lopez-Pastorini, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Cologne-Merheim Hospital, Kliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH, Witten-Herdecke University Hospital, Ostmerheimerstr. 200, Cologne D-51109, Germany; alberto.lopez{at}uni-wh.de

https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2015-207713

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