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Pulmonary sporotrichosis with massive hemoptysis
E F Haponik1, M K Hill, C C Craighead
1Department of Medicine and Surgery, Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans 70112.
The American Journal of the Medical Sciences
|April 1, 1989
Abstract:
Pulmonary sporotrichosis is an uncommon condition that may mimic tuberculosis. We present a patient who, years after antifungal therapy, presented with massive pulmonary hemorrhage. Although such life-threatening hemoptysis caused by sporotrichosis is rare, the possibility of this complication of progressive disease should influence decisions regarding medical and surgical treatment of patients with extensive cavitary involvement.