A 51-Year-Old Woman With Pellets in the Sputum.
Chest
; 157(2): e25-e29, 2020 02.
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| ID: mdl-32033657
ABSTRACT
CASE PRESENTATION A 51-year-old woman with no comorbidities presented with a 3-month history of cough with mucopurulent expectoration and intermittent fever. Over the past 1 month, she complained of streaky hemoptysis and gave history of expectorating "whitish pellets" in the sputum on two occasions. She had developed progressive breathlessness for a week prior to presentation to our hospital. There was no history of chest pain or loss of weight or appetite. She was a nonsmoker and did not consume alcohol. She had received multiple courses of antibiotics at another center with no relief of symptoms.
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Assunto principal:
Actinomicose
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Empiema Pleural
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Litíase
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Pneumopatias
Limite:
Female
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Humans
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Middle aged
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Chest
Ano de publicação:
2020
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Article