An unusual case of haemoptysis
- 1Respiratory Medicine, Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro, Cornwall, UK
- 2Department of Radiology, Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro, Cornwall, UK
- Correspondence to Dr Jovin John Mathew, Respiratory Medicine, Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro, Cornwall TR1 3LJ, UK; drjjmathew{at}gmail.com
- Received 14 December 2012
- Accepted 17 December 2012
- Published Online First 24 January 2013
An 18-year-old female subject with a history of decortication for right sided, postpneumonic pleural thickening presented with haemoptysis. A CT pulmonary angiogram showed marked hypoplasia of the right main, lobar and segmental pulmonary arteries, along with reduced volume of the right …
