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CT demonstration of asymptomatic pulmonary emboli after bone marrow transplantation: case report

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Asymptomatic pulmonary emboli producing microcalcifications were observed 200 days after bone marrow transplantation on a routine surveillance CT in a child. The findings consisted of peripheral hazy, nodular infiltrates in the lower lung fields. To our knowledge this has not been recorded in the radiologic literature.

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  1. Department of Diagnostic Radiology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

    B. T. Allen & D. L. Day

  2. Laboratory Medicine and Pathology (Division of Surgical Pathology), University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

    L. P. Dehner

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Allen, B.T., Day, D.L. & Dehner, L.P. CT demonstration of asymptomatic pulmonary emboli after bone marrow transplantation: case report. Pediatr Radiol 17, 65–67 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02386599

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