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Red arrow pointing to the IVC filter strut at the pulmonary vasculature. (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of this article.)
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Chest CT scan with IV contrast showed a high-density linear structure extending into the superior segmental and superior lingular segmental pulmonary artery branches and the left lower lobe (Fig. 1).
Chest x-ray showing a foreign linear structure at the left upper part of the lung (structure better seen in the magnified image on the right.
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A chest x-ray shows the same finding (Fig. 2).
The abdominal CT shown above was in 12/2008 showing 12 struts as compared to the bottom CT abdomen taken on 9/2010 showing only 11 struts.
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Fig. 3 shows a comparison between two abdominal CTs.