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A 20-year-old man presented with back pain and hemoptysis, with bronchoscopy revealing pearl-like nodules in the trachea.
Case Report (n=1)
Case report of a 20-year-old man presenting with back pain, hemoptysis, and tracheal nodules.
Alerts clinicians to rare tracheal lesions in young adults with hemoptysis; leaves open etiology and management implications.
Presentation of CaseA 20-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of back pain and hemoptysis.The patient had been in excellent health until about two and a half months earlier, when pleuritic, right-sided posterior chest pain developed. About two weeks before admission, a paroxysmal dry cough developed, and several days before admission, he began to cough up small amounts of bright red blood without obvious sputum.One day before admission, he coughed up several hundred milliliters of blood. He was admitted to another hospital, where a bronchoscopic examination was reported to show pearl-like nodules in the trachea that . . .
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Kradin et al. (2000) conducted a case report in Back pain and hemoptysis (n=1). A 20-year-old man presented with back pain and hemoptysis, with bronchoscopy revealing pearl-like nodules in the trachea.
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