Massive hemoptysis complicating Behçet's syndrome: the importance of early pulmonary angiography and operation.
A 16-year-old patient with Behçet's syndrome had massive hemoptysis due to a ruptured aneurysm of a segmental artery of the left lung. Emergency left lower lobectomy was performed. The patient is well 12 months after operation. There have been no further episodes of hemoptysis.
Salamon
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Department of Internal Medicine D, Beilinson Medical Center, Petah Tikva, Israel.
Weinberger
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Nili
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Avidor
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Neuman
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Zelikovsky
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Levy
M J
MJ
Pinkhas
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D000293:Adolescent; D000783:Aneurysm / Q000150:complications*; D001528:Behcet Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D006469:Hemoptysis / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011859:Radiography; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous