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Previous Volume 329:970-971 September 23, 1993 Number 13 Next

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To the Editor: After a 53-year-old man was admitted to the hospital in October 1990 with mild exertional dyspnea, a chest film showed a foreign body about 40 cm long. The foreign body was obviously a guide wire. One end was coiled in the left and right pulmonary arteries; the other extended into the right ventricular outflow tract (Figure 1). The man had been hospitalized 14 years earlier for the treatment of a fractured left femur. A central venous line had been placed from the right cubital vein. We presumed that central embolization by the guide wire occurred . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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