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Chest clinic
Images in thorax
Man in the bubble
  1. Yu-Huei Li1,
  2. Chung-Kan Peng2
  1. 1Department of Internal Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan
  2. 2Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan
  1. Correspondence to Dr Chung-Kan Peng, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, No. 325, Sec.2, Chenggong Rd., Neihu District, Taipei City 114, Taiwan; kanpeng{at}mail.ndmctsgh.edu.tw

https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2015-207463

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    • Contributors Y-HL and C-KP managed the patient. Y-HL prepared the manuscript and images. C-KP revised this article.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

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

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