Presentation of CaseA 13-year-old girl was admitted to the hospital because of fever, cough, and hematuria.As a young child she had had recurrent pneumonia, with one episode of gross hematuria ascribed to urinary tract infection. At the age of nine years, shortly after arriving in the United States from the Dominican Republic, she was evaluated at this hospital. An x-ray film of the chest showed hazy linear and nodular consolidations in both lungs that were principally central in location and paratracheal and hilar lymphadenopathy. The urine, urea nitrogen, total protein, albumin, and globulin were normal. A tuberculin skin . . .
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