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Case Reports
. 2015 Jul;93(7):420-3.

[A diagnostic trap simulating pulmonary embolism]

[Article in French]
Abderrahmane Bakkali, Moncef Hlal, Mathieu Rodière, Aude Boignard, Olivier Chavanon
  • PMID: 26757495
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Case Reports

[A diagnostic trap simulating pulmonary embolism]

[Article in French]
Abderrahmane Bakkali et al. Tunis Med. 2015 Jul.
Free article

Abstract

Pulmonary embolism is one of the differential diagnoses of "acute chest" syndromes. We report a clinical case of contained rupture of ascending aortic aneurysm with pulmonary arteries compression, which was presented as pulmonary embolism, and we well review the literature data of this diagnostic trap.

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