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75-year-old man with lung cancer obscured by an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator — case report
Affiliations- Student’s Scientific Society, Department of Cardiology, Collegium Medicum, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie 9 St., 85-094 Bydgoszcz, Poland
- Department of Cardiology and Internal Medicine, Collegium Medicum, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie 9 St., 85-094 Bydgoszcz, Poland
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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.
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 cancer, ICD, chest X-ray
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75-year-old man with lung cancer obscured by an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator — case report
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Case report
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63-66
Published online
2019-02-08
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Medical Research Journal 2019;4(1):63-66.
Keywords
Lung cancer
ICD
chest X-ray
Authors
Piotr Lackowski
Anna Bacza
Małgorzata Ostrowska
Tomasz Fabiszak
Wojciech Krupa
Jacek Kubica
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