Dieulafoy’s disease of the bronchus: a possible mistake

We present a case of a 57 year old woman who suffered from massive hemoptysis; she was sent to our Department for a suspect neoformant lesion. We assumed it might be a Dielafoy’s disease and proceeded with an imaging study that confirmed the diagnosis. After embolization the patient no longer showed...

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Autores principales: Barisione, Emanuela E, Ferretti, Gabriele G, Ravera, Silvia S, Salio, Mario M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3517463/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23137343
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2049-6958-7-40
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author Barisione, Emanuela E
Ferretti, Gabriele G
Ravera, Silvia S
Salio, Mario M
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description We present a case of a 57 year old woman who suffered from massive hemoptysis; she was sent to our Department for a suspect neoformant lesion. We assumed it might be a Dielafoy’s disease and proceeded with an imaging study that confirmed the diagnosis. After embolization the patient no longer showed signs of bleeding. In brief, we concluded that whenever there is a suspect of Dielafoy’s disease, the biopsy has to be avoided.
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spelling pubmed-35174632012-12-08 Dieulafoy’s disease of the bronchus: a possible mistake Barisione, Emanuela E Ferretti, Gabriele G Ravera, Silvia S Salio, Mario M Multidiscip Respir Med Case Report We present a case of a 57 year old woman who suffered from massive hemoptysis; she was sent to our Department for a suspect neoformant lesion. We assumed it might be a Dielafoy’s disease and proceeded with an imaging study that confirmed the diagnosis. After embolization the patient no longer showed signs of bleeding. In brief, we concluded that whenever there is a suspect of Dielafoy’s disease, the biopsy has to be avoided. BioMed Central 2012-11-08 /pmc/articles/PMC3517463/ /pubmed/23137343 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2049-6958-7-40 Text en Copyright ©2012 Barisione et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3517463/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23137343
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2049-6958-7-40
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