Air crescent sign: not always due to fungal infection
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- 4 September 2014
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in QJM: An International Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 108 (3) , 255-256
Abstract
A 65-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital due to hemoptysis once for 1 day. Cough with some whitish sputum but no fever or body weight loss was noted. Her medical history included hypertension, which was under regular medical control. She denied any smoking history. A physical examination revealed no remarkable findings. The chest radiograph obtained on hospital admission revealed suspected an irregular border mass, located in the right lower lobe. A chest computed tomography (CT) scan revealed …Keywords
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