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This case report describes three cases of acute massive pulmonary embolism treated with surgical embolectomy at Skejby Sygehus (Aarhus University Hospital), Denmark, in the period from March 2005 to January 2006. It was necessary to open each pulmonary artery in all three patients in order to remove as much of the embolic material as possible. ⋯ They all had normal echocardiography postoperatively. Surgical embolectomy is therefore a feasible treatment for acute massive pulmonary embolism.