A 51-Year-Old Woman With Pellets in the Sputum.
case_report · Level V
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1016/j.chest.2019.09.037.
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Abstract
A 51-year-old woman with no comorbidities presented with a 3-month history of cough with mucopurulent expectoration and intermittent fever. Over the past 1 month, she complained of streaky hemoptysis and gave history of expectorating "whitish pellets" in the sputum on two occasions. She had developed progressive breathlessness for a week prior to presentation to our hospital. There was no history of chest pain or loss of weight or appetite. She was a nonsmoker and did not consume alcohol. She had received multiple courses of antibiotics at another center with no relief of symptoms.
Medical subject headings
- Actinomycosis
- Empyema, Pleural
- Lithiasis
- Lung Diseases