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Acute Pulmonary Embolus Associated with Transient Ventilatory Defect: Case Report

Veterans Administration Hospital and University of California, San Diego, California

Correspondence: For reprints contact: Andrew Taylor, Jr., Nuclear Medicine Service, VA Hospital, San Diego, 3350 La Jolla Village Dr., San Diego, Calif. 92161.

ABSTRACT

In a patient with a clinical history highly suggestive of pulmonary embolism and angiographic evidence also indicative of embolism, the ventilation/perfusion pattern was that usually observed with parenchymal disease of the lung. The possible basis of this contradiction is discussed.

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