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Eric Francis Macharia-Nimietz1, Jan-Christoph Zeisel2, Martin Thanh-Long Takes3
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Abstract:
We report the case of a 54-year-old woman with thalassemia intermedia and large bilateral intrathoracic extramedullary hematopoiesis since childhood. The patient presented with severe dyspnea and a suspected left-sided hemothorax on a computed tomography scan accompanied by almost complete atelectasis of the left lower lobe 3 weeks after blunt trauma. Microcoil embolization of the affected intercostal arteries was performed before a challenging but successful surgical resection.

