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SYPHILITIC ANEURYSM OF THE RIGHT SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY PRESENTING WITH HEMOPTYSIS
Author(s) -
BOUNDY K.,
BIGNOLD L. P.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 0004-8291
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-5994.1987.tb00115.x
Subject(s) - medicine , autopsy , subclavian artery , aneurysm , bronchial artery , parenchyma , right pulmonary artery , mediastinal mass , radiology , surgery , lung , pulmonary artery , pathology
A 40‐year‐old Australian Aboriginal female presented with hemoptysis in association with a right upper zone pulmonary and mediastinal mass. Several syphilitic infections in the patient had been documented during the previous 16 years. Death was due to a large hemoptysis, and autopsy revealed that the mass in the chest was a right subclavian artery aneurysm which had ruptured into the lung parenchyma. (Aust NZ J Med 1987; 17: 533–535.)