Vol 4, No 1 (2019)
Case report
Published online: 2019-02-08
75-year-old man with lung cancer obscured by an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator — case report
Medical Research Journal 2019;4(1):63-66.
Abstract
We present a case of a 75-year-old man, who underwent a scheduled implantable cardioverter-defibrillator
reoperation and has had a lung cancer found in a chest X-ray taken after the procedure, that was
completely obscured by the previous device.
Keywords: Lung cancerICDchest X-ray
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