Pulmonary Artery Cement Embolism after a Vertebroplasty

Figure 1

(a) An axial cut of the chest CT-scan of a nonenhanced CT chest showing multiple linear and extremely dense bone cement emboli involving pulmonary trunk and right pulmonary artery. (b) An axial cut of a nonenhanced CT chest showing a cement embolus involving the left main pulmonary artery. (c) A coronal cut of CT pulmonary angiogram also showing the cement emboli at the pulmonary trunk and right main pulmonary artery.

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