1. A 51-Year-Old Woman With Pellets in the Sputum
- Author
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Uma Maheswari Krishnaswamy, Tabinda Aijaz, Kavitha Venkatnarayan, Rishabh Raj, Uma Devaraj, Julian Crasta, and Priya Ramachandran
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Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Intermittent fever ,business.industry ,General surgery ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Case presentation ,Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine ,Chest pain ,medicine.disease ,Empyema ,Pneumonectomy ,Weight loss ,X ray computed ,medicine ,Sputum ,medicine.symptom ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business - Abstract
Case Presentation 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.
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- 2020