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Symptoms to Diagnosis

Pulmonary infarction due to pulmonary embolism

Melda Sonmez, MD, Loutfi S. Aboussouan, MD, Carol Farver, MD, Sudish C. Murthy, MD, PhD and Roop Kaw, MD
Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2018, 85 (11) 848-852; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.17132
Gregory W. Rutecki
Medical Student, Koc University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
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Melda Sonmez
Medical Student, Koc University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
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Loutfi S. Aboussouan
Department of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Cleveland Clinic; Associate Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
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Carol Farver
Department of Pathology, Cleveland Clinic; Professor of Pathology, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
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Sudish C. Murthy
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic; Professor of Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
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    Computed tomography shows a wedge-shaped area of low attenuation suggesting a focal infarction in the collapsed and consolidated right lower lobe.

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    Infarcted lung with alveoli, ischemic necrosis, and a fibrinous exudate on pleural surface (arrow) (hematoxylin and eosin, x 12.5).

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Pulmonary infarction due to pulmonary embolism
Melda Sonmez, Loutfi S. Aboussouan, Carol Farver, Sudish C. Murthy, Roop Kaw
Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine Nov 2018, 85 (11) 848-852; DOI: 10.3949/ccjm.85a.17132

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Melda Sonmez, Loutfi S. Aboussouan, Carol Farver, Sudish C. Murthy, Roop Kaw
Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine Nov 2018, 85 (11) 848-852; DOI: 10.3949/ccjm.85a.17132
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