Korean J Med.
2004 Nov;67(Suppl 3):S757-S760.
Massive bleeding caused by bronchoscopic biopsy of an abnormal bronchial artery
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- 1Department of Internal Medicine, Fatima Hospital, Daegu, Korea.
- 2Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Fatima Hospital, Daegu, Korea.
- 3Department of Pathology, Fatima Hospital, Daegu, Korea.
Abstract
- A 39 years old woman was admitted to the hospital because of recurrent hemoptysis. On a bronchoscopic inspection, nodular shaped mass-like lesions were found on the orifice of right middle and lower lobar bronchus and a biopsy was performed. This was immediately followed by massive bleeding into the airways. The bleeding could not be controlled by nonsurgical treatment. Immediately she underwent a right middle and lower bilobectomy in order to control of bleeding. Biopsy revealed the bleeding to have been caused by a biopsy injury of an abnormal artery that had run superficially in the bronchial mucosa.
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