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A 55-year-old patient from North Africa had been suffering from various symptoms including dyspnea, chronic coughing and chest pain. She had a plain X-ray that showed several pulmonary nodules and was therefore given a CT scan, which revealed a number of walled, cyst-like lesions, scattered in her right lung, mediastinum, heart, liver and retroperitoneum, invading the superior vena cava and compressing it.
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Jacquier, A. (2011). Infectious Lesions. In: CMR and MDCT in Cardiac Masses. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18457-4_6
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