TY - JOUR T1 - Recurrent and fatal haemoptysis caused by an atheromatous abdominal aortic aneurysm. JF - Thorax JO - Thorax SP - 568 LP - 569 DO - 10.1136/thx.45.7.568 VL - 45 IS - 7 AU - M T Villar AU - J Wiggins AU - B Corrin AU - T W Evans Y1 - 1990/07/01 UR - http://thorax.bmj.com/content/45/7/568.abstract N2 - A 74 year old woman presented with a two month history of recurrent small hemoptyses and died after a subsequent massive haemoptysis. At postmortem examination the source of bleeding was found to be a leaking saccular, atheromatous abdominal aortic aneurysm, which had ruptured through the diaphragm into the lower lobe of the right lung. ER -