[A case of bronchial arterial aneurysm associated with recurrent massive hemoptysis].
A 69-year-old man was admitted to our hospital because of massive hemoptysis. Bronchial arteriography showed no abnormal findings. Bronchoscopic findings revealed a small, reddish elevated lesion on the posterior surface of the left upper lobe bronchus. Since the patient developed massive hemoptysis four times in a month, he underwent ligation and transection of the left bronchial artery, and bronchoplasty. Histopathologically, the resected tissue showed a bronchial arterial aneurysm without any inflammatory changes. We concluded that the aneurysm had developed in a malformed vessel.
Inou
Hitoshi
H
First Department of Internal Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine, 3-1-1 Asahi Matsumoto.
Sasabayashi
Mari
M
Tsushima
Kenji
K
Yamazaki
Yoshitaka
Y
Hanaoka
Masayuki
M
Yamaguchi
Shinji
S
Koizumi
Tomonobu
T
Fujimoto
Keisaku
K
Kubo
Keishi
K
Kondou
Ryuichi
R
Kaneko
Kazuhiko
K
Hanyuuda
Masayuki
M
Honda
Takayuki
T
D000368:Aged; D017542:Aneurysm, Ruptured / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D001980:Bronchi / Q000601:surgery; D001981:Bronchial Arteries / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006469:Hemoptysis / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008026:Ligation; D008297:Male; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures; D012008:Recurrence; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures