Image challenge: Beware of diagnostic anchoring – An offshore vessel welding inspector with eosinophilia and a cough productive of ‘worms’

A 38-year old male was referred from an Acute Medical Unit to a regional Tropical Infectious Disease Unit with a seven-week history of dyspnoea, wheeze and cough reportedly productive of worms. The patient had taken photographs of the expectorated substance which allowed macroscopic examination by a...

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Autores principales: Watson, Rebecca, Adler, Hugh, Wingfield, Tom
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd 2021
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Case Reports and Series
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8661125/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34950867
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clinpr.2021.100105
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description A 38-year old male was referred from an Acute Medical Unit to a regional Tropical Infectious Disease Unit with a seven-week history of dyspnoea, wheeze and cough reportedly productive of worms. The patient had taken photographs of the expectorated substance which allowed macroscopic examination by a consultant in infectious diseases. Fresh samples were also sent for histological examination. Initial investigations showed a prominent eosinophilia of 2.5 × 10(9)/ml (0.0-0.4 × 10(9)/ml).
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spelling pubmed-86611252021-12-21 Image challenge: Beware of diagnostic anchoring – An offshore vessel welding inspector with eosinophilia and a cough productive of ‘worms’ Watson, Rebecca Adler, Hugh Wingfield, Tom Clin Infect Pract Case Reports and Series A 38-year old male was referred from an Acute Medical Unit to a regional Tropical Infectious Disease Unit with a seven-week history of dyspnoea, wheeze and cough reportedly productive of worms. The patient had taken photographs of the expectorated substance which allowed macroscopic examination by a consultant in infectious diseases. Fresh samples were also sent for histological examination. Initial investigations showed a prominent eosinophilia of 2.5 × 10(9)/ml (0.0-0.4 × 10(9)/ml). Elsevier Ltd 2021-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8661125/ /pubmed/34950867 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clinpr.2021.100105 Text en © 2021 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title Image challenge: Beware of diagnostic anchoring – An offshore vessel welding inspector with eosinophilia and a cough productive of ‘worms’
title_full Image challenge: Beware of diagnostic anchoring – An offshore vessel welding inspector with eosinophilia and a cough productive of ‘worms’
title_fullStr Image challenge: Beware of diagnostic anchoring – An offshore vessel welding inspector with eosinophilia and a cough productive of ‘worms’
title_full_unstemmed Image challenge: Beware of diagnostic anchoring – An offshore vessel welding inspector with eosinophilia and a cough productive of ‘worms’
title_short Image challenge: Beware of diagnostic anchoring – An offshore vessel welding inspector with eosinophilia and a cough productive of ‘worms’
title_sort image challenge: beware of diagnostic anchoring – an offshore vessel welding inspector with eosinophilia and a cough productive of ‘worms’
topic Case Reports and Series
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8661125/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34950867
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clinpr.2021.100105
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