Journal of Chest Surgery

The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (대한심장혈관흉부외과학회)
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Pulmonary Actinomycosis Associated with Endobronchial Vegetable Foreign Body

  • Baek, Jong Hyun (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Yeungnam University College of Medicine) ;
  • Lee, Jang Hoon (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Yeungnam University College of Medicine) ;
  • Kim, Myeong Su (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Yeungnam University College of Medicine) ;
  • Lee, Jung Cheul (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Yeungnam University College of Medicine)
  • Received : 2014.06.16
  • Accepted : 2014.08.07
  • Published : 2014.12.05
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Abstract

A 51-year-old woman visited our hospital with massive hemoptysis. She had suffered from recurrent hemoptysis for five years and had undergone bronchial artery embolization many times. The patient had a history of pulmonary tuberculosis and bronchiectasis. Chest radiography showed consolidation around the nodule in the lateral basal segment of the right lower lobe. We successfully performed a right lower lobectomy. The histological study of the resected specimen showed a vegetable foreign body and clumps of Actinomyces, indicating actinomycosis, which was suggested to be the cause of the hemoptysis. This was a very rare case of hemoptysis caused by a vegetable foreign body and actinomycosis.

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