Pulmonary Artery Pseudoaneurysm Secondary to Lung Abscess
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Pulmonary artery pseudoaneurysm secondary to lung abscess.
A 90-year-old man with hypertension and parkinsonism presented at a private clinic with shortness of breath and palpitation. His chest X-ray showed infiltration in the right middle lung field, which was revealed to be bacterial pneumonia. He was admitted to our hospital for treatment of pneumonia. He had no sputum and a negative result for urinary antigen of Streptococcus pneumonia, cefotaxime ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Internal Medicine
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0918-2918,1349-7235
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.48.2610