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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2007;31:309-310. doi:10.1016/j.ejcts.2006.11.026
Copyright © 2007, European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved

Images in cardio-thoracic surgery

Unusual retained foreign body in the lung: a tree branch

Flora H.F. Tsang, Alan D.L. Sihoe*, Lik-Cheung Cheng

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, The University of Hong Kong, Grantham Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China

Received 19 September 2006; received in revised form 19 September 2006; accepted 7 November 2006.

* Corresponding author. Tel.: +86 852 2518 2111; fax: +86 852 2647 3512. (Email: adls1@lycos.com).

Key Words: Foreign body • Lung • Trauma • Penetrating chest injury

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A 30-year-old woman presented with intermittent hemoptysis for 3 years. Fifteen years earlier, she suffered penetrating injury to the chest after falling onto a pile of broken twigs (Fig. 1A). Imaging revealed a cylindrical lesion in the right upper lobe lung (Fig. 1B and C). The lobe was resected and found to contain . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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