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Chest clinic
Images in Thorax
Cementing an unwanted relationship
  1. Chia-Hao Chang,
  2. Li-Ta Keng,
  3. Jen-Chung Ko
  1. Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital Hsin-Chu Branch, Hsinchu, Taiwan
  1. Correspondence to Dr Li-Ta Keng, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital Hsin-Chu Branch, No. 25, Lane 442, Section 1, Jingguo Road, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan; ltkeng{at}gmail.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2016-209475

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    • Contributors All authors were involved in literature review, drafting of manuscript and critically reviewing it for intellectual content.

    • Competing interests None.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

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