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Presentation of Case

A 51-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of recurrent hemoptysis.

The patient had been well until 18 months earlier, when she awoke from sleep with fluid in her mouth and spat out about 60 ml of blood. She had had a slight cough and two episodes of scanty hemoptysis about three months earlier. Her physician heard focal wheezing over the dorsal aspect of the region of the left upper lobe. The heart, abdomen, arms, and legs were normal. A chest radiograph showed slight calcification of hilar and mediastinal lymph nodes; the calcification was more prominent on the right . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Differential Diagnosis

Fungal Infection

Tuberculosis

Broncholithiasis

Clinical Diagnosis

Dr. Jennifer S. Daly's Diagnosis

Pathological Discussion

Anatomical Diagnosis

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