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### Clinical history

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53-year-old man with history of alcoholic cirrhosis. Chest-X ray for liver transplantation work-up.

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### Radiological findings

### CT images

### CT findings

### Extra Examinations

Past history of the patient revealed a percutaneous vertebroplasty performed several months before.
During this procedure the patient had a cardiac malaise with interruption of the vertebroplasty.
CT performed at the level of the lumbar spine (L3-L4) showed cement located in the vertebral bodies but also migrating into the perivertebral veins.

### Final diagnosis

Cement pulmonary embolism following percutaneous vertebroplasty
Yeo Ju Kim MD, Joon Woo Lee MD, Kun Woo Park MD, Jin-Seob Yeom MD,Hee Sun Jeong MD, Jeong Mi Park MD, Heung Sik Kang MD, Pulmonary cement embolism after percutaneous vertebroplasty in osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures: Incidence, Characteristics and risk factors, April 2009 Radiology, 251, 250-259.

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