Year: 2024
Type: article
Study design: Case Report
Abstract: Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a common clinical condition that generally presents with acute dyspnea, pleuritic chest pain, cough, hemoptysis, tachypnea, tachycardia and hypoxia. Incidental pulmonary embolism (IPE) is defined as an unsuspected filling defect in the pulmonary arteries identified on CT imaging performed for another indication. This report describes a case of Incidental pulmonary embolism (IPE) detected by CT imaging during the follow-up of a 34-year-old male patient who applied to the internal medicine outpatient clinic with weight loss and gastrointestinal system complaints
Institution: Bezmiâlem Vakıf Üniversitesi
Language: English
Subfield: Internal Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4402148785