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Photograph sent by GK to our office depicting her sudden right-hand swelling.
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The patient was able to send our office a picture of her swollen hand over a secure email service with patient identification removed (Figure 1).
Computed tomography angiogram (CTA) transverse, coronal, and sagittal images depicting the presence of an acute pulmonary embolism (PE) in the subsegmental posterior basal segment artery of the right lower lobe indicated by the green arrows.
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Vital signs were stable and we ordered a stat computed tomography (CT) pulmonary angiogram, which revealed that the patient had an acute pulmonary embolism (PE) in the subsegmental posterior basal segment artery of the right lower lobe (Figure 2).