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Life-threatening hemoptysis in a child: the only symptom
Alper Toker1, Serhan Tanju, Yusuf Bayrak
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Istanbul Medical School, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|January 17, 2004
Abstract:
An 8-year-old girl was evaluated for hemoptysis, 50 mL/day, which lasted for 3 days. Computed thoracic tomography detected a mass lesion in the right lower lobe. During rigid bronchoscopic examination, exanguinating hemoptysis occurred, and a Fogarty balloon catheter was placed in the right intermediate bronchus. Thoracotomy revealed a 2 x 2-cm mass in the right lower lobe. Common basal segmentectomy was performed. Pathological frozen-section analysis confirmed the diagnosis of perforated hydatid cyst.