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63-year-old woman with cement pulmonary embolus. Contrast-enhanced chest CT reveals high density structures (arrows) within subsegmental pulmonary arteries, representing cement pulmonary emboli
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Findings demonstrated high density material within multiple bilateral subsegmental pulmonary arteries consistent with multiple methylmethacrylate cement pulmonary emboli (Fig. 1).
63-year-old woman with cement pulmonary embolus. Frontal view of the chest shows cement emboli (arrows) at subsegmental levels.
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Upon further review of post operative chest radiographs, multiple dense linear opacities were seen bilaterally (Fig. 2).
63-year-old woman with cement pulmonary embolus. Frontal and lateral views of the lumbar spine demonstrate linear density (arrows) coursing superiorly, lateral to vertebral bodies T10, T11, and T12, consistent with methacrylate extravasation into the paravertebral spinous plexus
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T10, T11, and T12 vertebral bodies, coursing superiorly (Fig. 3). These findings confirmed methylmethacrylate extravasation into the paravertebral venous plexus.