Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases

The Korean Academy of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases (대한결핵및호흡기학회)
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Unusual Roentgenographic Presentation of Lung Cancer in a Pregnant Woman with Acute Respiratory Failure

급성 호흡부전 임산부에서의 폐병변

  • Park, Tae-Byung (Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care medicine, College of Medicine, Ajou University) ;
  • Hwang, Sung-Chul (Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care medicine, College of Medicine, Ajou University) ;
  • Lee, Yi-Hyeong (Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care medicine, College of Medicine, Ajou University) ;
  • Park, Kyung-Joo (Department of Radiology, College of Medicine, Ajou University) ;
  • Joo, Hee-Jae (Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, Ajou University)
  • 박태병 (아주대학교 의과대학 호흡기내과학교실) ;
  • 황성철 (아주대학교 의과대학 호흡기내과학교실) ;
  • 이이형 (아주대학교 의과대학 호흡기내과학교실) ;
  • 박경주 (아주대학교 의과대학 방사선과학교실) ;
  • 주희재 (아주대학교 의과대학 병리학교실)
  • Published : 1995.12.31
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Abstract

Diagnostic procedures in pregnant wowen is limited and is usually delayed, especially so if she is on mechanical ventilation. A 28-year-old pregnant woman with severe dyspnea was referred to our hospital under the impression of miliary tuberculosis. The respiratory failure was so severe that patient had to be managed with mechanical ventilator under clinical impression of overwhelming pneumonia or pulmonary tuberculosis. But the patient's conditions deteriorated. Bronchoscopy and blind transbronchial lung biopsy performed to determine the nature of the etiology, and to our surprise, revealed squamous cell carcinoma of the lung.

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