The shocking lung mass: a case report.
Two years after implantation of an ICD with epicardial patch leads, a patient presented with hemoptysis. The posterior left ventricular patch was found to have eroded into lingular segmental bronchus. During thoracotomy, the hardware was removed and the bronchus successfully repaired.
Mahajan
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Methodist Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Porterfield
J G
JG
Porterfield
L M
LM
Wells
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Crump
C A
CA
D000368:Aged; D001980:Bronchi; D017147:Defibrillators, Implantable / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed