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Shows pitting oedema of right leg.
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His right leg was swollen with pitting ankle oedema (figure 1) while having normal arterial pulses.
shows CTPA with multiple filling defects in both right and left main pulmonary arteries.
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Subsequently a computed tomography pulmonary angiography (CTPA) confirmed pulmonary emboli in the right and left main pulmonary arteries with right lower lobe lung collapse and a mild pleural effusion (figure 2).