Today we discussed a case of a patient with hemoptysis x months with associated weight loss. One of the episodes sounded like "massive hemoptysis"
I have previously discussed hemoptysis here.
We discussed the importance of differentiating hemoptysis from hematemesis and epistaxis. I have previously blogged about upper GI bleeding a few times (linked from here)
In the end, we had a chest xray showing middle lobe collapse with a CT scan showing two probably tumours within the lung. The University of Auckland has an interesting site looking at the anatomy as viewed by CT thorax.
We finished by discussing the staging of lung cancer.
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