title: Intrathoracic rosai-dorfman disease: hemorrhage with routine diagnostic procedure.
abstract: We present a case of a 33-year-old female with a slow growing, right peribronchial vascular mass and associated symptoms of progressive cough, dyspnea on exertion, and hemoptysis. On routine diagnostic flexible bronchoscopy with needle biopsy, the lesion hemorrhaged extensively requiring emergent thoracotomy, right lower and middle bilobectomy. The histopathology of the specimen was consistent with the rare and unusually located entity Rosai-Dorfman disease.
authors.affiliation: Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
authors.forename: Bartlomiej R
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Imielski
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
authors.forename: Vijaya S
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Ramalingam
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
authors.forename: R Nagarjun
authors.initials: RN
authors.lastname: Rao
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
authors.forename: Tilottama
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Majumdar
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Electronic address: ghaasler@mcw.edu.
authors.forename: George B
authors.initials: GB
authors.lastname: Haasler
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D001999:Bronchoscopy; D003955:Diagnostic Tests, Routine; D005260:Female; D006469:Hemoptysis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D015618:Histiocytosis, Sinus / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed