Korean J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg.
2014 Dec;47(6):566-568. 10.5090/kjtcs.2014.47.6.566.
Pulmonary Actinomycosis Associated with Endobronchial Vegetable Foreign Body
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- 1Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Yeungnam University College of Medicine, Korea. heartljh@yumail.ac.kr
- KMID: 2382215
- DOI: http://doi.org/10.5090/kjtcs.2014.47.6.566
Abstract
- A 51-year-old woman visited our hospital with massive hemoptysis. She had suffered from recurrent hemoptysis for five years and had undergone bronchial artery embolization many times. The patient had a history of pulmonary tuberculosis and bronchiectasis. Chest radiography showed consolidation around the nodule in the lateral basal segment of the right lower lobe. We successfully performed a right lower lobectomy. The histological study of the resected specimen showed a vegetable foreign body and clumps of Actinomyces, indicating actinomycosis, which was suggested to be the cause of the hemoptysis. This was a very rare case of hemoptysis caused by a vegetable foreign body and actinomycosis.
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