HAEMOPTYSIS - A RARE PRESENTATION OF AORTIC ANE URYSM

We report a case of a 65 year old man who presented with haemoptysis. X-ray chest PA view shows mediastinal widening suggestive of mediastinal mass. A CT scan of thorax shows a large aneurysm of ascending aorta & arch of aorta. This an-eurysm is eroding the trachea and abutting the sternum and v...

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Autores principales: Nair, Girija, Jindal, Savita, Chandra, Abehishek, Swami, Shivani, Garg, Pankaj
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2853042/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20396656
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.44133
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author Nair, Girija
Jindal, Savita
Chandra, Abehishek
Swami, Shivani
Garg, Pankaj
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Jindal, Savita
Chandra, Abehishek
Swami, Shivani
Garg, Pankaj
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description We report a case of a 65 year old man who presented with haemoptysis. X-ray chest PA view shows mediastinal widening suggestive of mediastinal mass. A CT scan of thorax shows a large aneurysm of ascending aorta & arch of aorta. This an-eurysm is eroding the trachea and abutting the sternum and vertebrae. The patient is VDRL reactive. Haemoptysis is a rare presentation of aortic aneurysm.
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spelling pubmed-28530422010-04-14 HAEMOPTYSIS - A RARE PRESENTATION OF AORTIC ANE URYSM Nair, Girija Jindal, Savita Chandra, Abehishek Swami, Shivani Garg, Pankaj Lung India Case Report We report a case of a 65 year old man who presented with haemoptysis. X-ray chest PA view shows mediastinal widening suggestive of mediastinal mass. A CT scan of thorax shows a large aneurysm of ascending aorta & arch of aorta. This an-eurysm is eroding the trachea and abutting the sternum and vertebrae. The patient is VDRL reactive. Haemoptysis is a rare presentation of aortic aneurysm. Medknow Publications 2008 /pmc/articles/PMC2853042/ /pubmed/20396656 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.44133 Text en © Lung India http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Nair, Girija
Jindal, Savita
Chandra, Abehishek
Swami, Shivani
Garg, Pankaj
HAEMOPTYSIS - A RARE PRESENTATION OF AORTIC ANE URYSM
title HAEMOPTYSIS - A RARE PRESENTATION OF AORTIC ANE URYSM
title_full HAEMOPTYSIS - A RARE PRESENTATION OF AORTIC ANE URYSM
title_fullStr HAEMOPTYSIS - A RARE PRESENTATION OF AORTIC ANE URYSM
title_full_unstemmed HAEMOPTYSIS - A RARE PRESENTATION OF AORTIC ANE URYSM
title_short HAEMOPTYSIS - A RARE PRESENTATION OF AORTIC ANE URYSM
title_sort haemoptysis - a rare presentation of aortic ane urysm
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2853042/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20396656
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.44133
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