Rendu-Osler-Weber syndrome in a 9 year old girl presenting with repeated haemoptysis.
A case is reported of Rendu-Osler-Weber syndrome presenting in a 9 year old girl as recurrent haemoptysis. Despite a normal chest X-ray, the patient was found to have multiple areas of angiodysplasia in the major airways of her right lung.
Robinson
P J
PJ
Professorial Department of Thoracic Medicine, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
Phelan
P D
PD
D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006469:Hemoptysis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D013683:Telangiectasia, Hereditary Hemorrhagic / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*