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Thorax 63:620 doi:10.1136/thx.2007.091678
  • Pulmonary puzzle
    • Miscellaneous

A patchy consolidation at the apical segment of the left lower lobe associated with productive cough

  1. Y-L Chang1,
  2. C-T Wu1,
  3. Y-C Lee2
  1. 1
    Department of Pathology, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
  2. 2
    Departments of Surgery and Traumatology, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
  1. Dr Y-C Lee, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Roosevelt Road, Taipei, Taiwan; ntuhycl{at}gmail.com

    CLINICAL PRESENTATION

    A 65-year-old female non-smoker had a 3-month history of productive cough and intermittent haemoptysis for 1 month. Plain chest radiography showed a mass-like shadow at the medial side of the left lower …