Right hilar mass with hemoptysis: An unusual presentation of uncommon disorder

Common differential diagnosis of lung and hilar opacity includes infectious pathology or a mitotic lesion. Behcet's disease (BD) is a rarely diagnosed disease in Indian subcontinent. BD is a multisystem inflammatory disorder that presents with recurrent orogenital ulceration, uveitis, and eryth...

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Autores principales: Mehta, Asmita A., Jose, Wesley, Balamugesh, Christopher, D. J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3213723/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22084550
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.85698
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description Common differential diagnosis of lung and hilar opacity includes infectious pathology or a mitotic lesion. Behcet's disease (BD) is a rarely diagnosed disease in Indian subcontinent. BD is a multisystem inflammatory disorder that presents with recurrent orogenital ulceration, uveitis, and erythema nodosum. We present here the case of a patient who presented with recurrent hemoptysis with radiological picture of hilar mass, during the evaluation of which the diagnosis of BD was established.
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spelling pubmed-32137232011-11-14 Right hilar mass with hemoptysis: An unusual presentation of uncommon disorder Mehta, Asmita A. Jose, Wesley Balamugesh, Christopher, D. J. Lung India Case Report Common differential diagnosis of lung and hilar opacity includes infectious pathology or a mitotic lesion. Behcet's disease (BD) is a rarely diagnosed disease in Indian subcontinent. BD is a multisystem inflammatory disorder that presents with recurrent orogenital ulceration, uveitis, and erythema nodosum. We present here the case of a patient who presented with recurrent hemoptysis with radiological picture of hilar mass, during the evaluation of which the diagnosis of BD was established. Medknow Publications 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3213723/ /pubmed/22084550 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.85698 Text en Copyright: © Lung India http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Right hilar mass with hemoptysis: An unusual presentation of uncommon disorder
title Right hilar mass with hemoptysis: An unusual presentation of uncommon disorder
title_full Right hilar mass with hemoptysis: An unusual presentation of uncommon disorder
title_fullStr Right hilar mass with hemoptysis: An unusual presentation of uncommon disorder
title_full_unstemmed Right hilar mass with hemoptysis: An unusual presentation of uncommon disorder
title_short Right hilar mass with hemoptysis: An unusual presentation of uncommon disorder
title_sort right hilar mass with hemoptysis: an unusual presentation of uncommon disorder
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3213723/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22084550
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.85698
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