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Years ago I had my leg badly crushed. Can that be a cause of a blood clot in the lung?

April 26, 2017badly blood cause clot crushed leg lung years ago

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Years ago I had my leg badly crushed. Can that be a cause of a blood clot in the lung?

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Yes. A clot probably formed on the site of the old scar tissue. When it broke loose it traveled through larger and larger blood vessels until it went through the heart. Then on the way to the way to the lungs it went through smaller and smaller blood vessels until it finally got stuck.