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Case Reports
. 2019 Jul 20;132(14):1742-1744.
doi: 10.1097/CM9.0000000000000336.

Pulmonary aspergillosis with in-situ pulmonary artery thrombosis: to anti-coagulate or not?

Zhi-Bo Liu  1 , Wan-Mu Xie, Zhen-Guo Zhai, Bin Cao, Jun Wan
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Pulmonary aspergillosis with in-situ pulmonary artery thrombosis: to anti-coagulate or not?

Zhi-Bo Liu et al. Chin Med J (Engl). .
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Figure 1
Computed tomography images of the patients. (A) CTPA showed filling defect in right main pulmonary artery in case 1 (arrow). (B) CT showed cavity in right lobe and dorsal segment of lower lobe with fibrosis and pleural thickening in case 1. (C) Chest CT of case 2 showed maculas shadows in tip-posterior of left upper lobe. (D) CTPA showed filling defect in the arteries supplying the left upper lobe in case 2 (arrow). (E) Fourteen days later, the follow-up chest CT of case 2 showed lesion developed into consolidation rapidly. (F) CTPA of case 3 showed filling defect in right main pulmonary artery (arrow). (G) Cavity of bilateral lobes in case 3. (H) A follow-up CTPA (4 months later) of case 3 showed sever local pulmonary fibrosis. (I) Chest CT (1 month after CT of figure 1G) showed cavity, formation of new nodules, and progressive massive fibrosis in multiple lobes in case 3. CTPA: Computed tomography pulmonary angiography.
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