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“Glue lung”: pulmonary micro-embolism caused by the glue used during interventional radiology
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A boy with a complex Galen’s vein arterovenous malformation was developing multiple endovascular embolisations every 3 months from birth. A treatment was scheduled at 15 months of age. During the angiographic procedure, some of the colloidal glue was seen to suddenly migrate into the lung vascular bed, and …
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