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Case Reports
. 2020 Aug;73(8):665-667.
doi: 10.1016/j.rec.2020.04.010. Epub 2020 Apr 27.

Pulmonary embolism in COVID-19. When nothing is what it seems

[Article in English, Spanish]
Ana-Maria Ioan  1 , Alejandro Durante-López  2 , Juan Martínez-Milla  2 , César Pérez-Calvo  1 , Arnoldo Santos  3
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Case Reports

Pulmonary embolism in COVID-19. When nothing is what it seems

[Article in English, Spanish]
Ana-Maria Ioan et al. Rev Esp Cardiol (Engl Ed). 2020 Aug.
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Figure 1
Figure 1
ECG. A: on admission. B: postreperfusion.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Computed tomography angiography. A: bilateral pulmonary artery embolism. B: bilateral ground glass opacities.
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