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Case Reports
. 2014 Jul-Aug;40(4):448-9.
doi: 10.1590/s1806-37132014000400014.

Accessory cardiac bronchus causing recurrent pulmonary infection

[Article in English, Portuguese]
Gláucia Zanetti  1 , Bruno Hochhegger  2 , Marcos Duarte Guimarães  3 , Edson Marchiori  4
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Accessory cardiac bronchus causing recurrent pulmonary infection

[Article in English, Portuguese]
Gláucia Zanetti et al. J Bras Pneumol. 2014 Jul-Aug.
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Figure 1
Figure 1. In A, an axial CT image demonstrating consolidations with cystic areas in the right paracardiac region. In B, a reformatted coronal image showing an accessory cardiac bronchus (arrow) arising from the medial wall of the intermediate bronchus. In C, threedimensional shaded surface display coronal reformatting, showing the accessory cardiac bronchus (arrow) and a correspondent lobule with cystic dilatations (arrowheads).
Figura 1
Figura 1. Em A, imagem de TC axial mostrando consolidações com áreas císticas na região paracardíaca direita. Em B, imagem coronal reformatada mostrando um brônquio cardíaco acessório (seta) proveniente da parede medial do brônquio intermediário. Em C, reformatação coronal tridimensional por exibição de superfície sombreada, mostrando o brônquio cardíaco acessório (seta) e um lóbulo correspondente com dilatações císticas (pontas de seta).
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