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. 2016 Jan-Feb;33(1):113.
doi: 10.4103/0970-2113.173071.

Pipe-cleaner sign

Binit Sureka  1 , Kalpana Bansal  1 , Dipanjan Panda  2 , Sachin Kumar  3
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Pipe-cleaner sign

Binit Sureka et al. Lung India. 2016 Jan-Feb.
No abstract available

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Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Illustration of a pipe-cleaner used to clean smoking pipe
Figure 2
Figure 2
(a) Chest radiograph showing nodular thickening of the right fissure (arrow) with ill-defined nodules in the right lower zone and tenting of the right diaphragm. (b) Axial chest CT scan showing nodular fissural thickening (arrowhead) resembling a pipe-cleaner. In addition, a few perilymphatic and centrilobular nodules are seen in the bilateral lungs
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