منابع مشابه
[The bleeding into the emphysematosus bulla imitating lung tumor].
Bleeding into the lung parenchyma is a rare phenomenon that usually occurs as a result of chest trauma, other causes are anticoagulant therapy, and infections. The following case presents a patient admitted to the hospital due to haemoptysis, which was a symptom of bleeding into the emphysematosus bulla caused by anticoagulation therapy. The decisive diagnostic examination was chest magnetic...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Haematology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0007-1048,1365-2141
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.2007.06945.x