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Chest clinic
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Granulomatosis with polyangitis (Wegener's)
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- Wegener granulomatosis
- pulmonary manifestation
- consolidation
- ANCA related vasculitides
- imaging/CT MRI etc
A 51-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with general fatigue, fever and cough. Upon examination, sinusitis, papules of the planta, polymorph leucocytosis, hypoalbuminaemia and an elevated level of PR3-antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCAs) were found. Her chest radiograph (figure 1A) and thoracic CT (figures 1B 2A) demonstrated a large area of consolidation with air bronchogram and cavitation in the right lung field. …