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Query: UMLS:C0040586 (
tracheobronchitis
)
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document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)
Herpes simplex virus (HSV) causes
tracheobronchitis
and pneumonitis; however, to date, there has only been one report of an endobronchial mass caused by HSV type II. This case study describes a 68-yr-old female with severe kyphoscoliosis who was intubated for acute on chronic hypercapnic respiratory failure and developed blood-tinged endotracheal secretions. Fibreoptic bronchoscopy demonstrated an endobronchial mass in the right middle lobe. Cultures grew HSV type I and biopsy specimens demonstrated cytopathological changes consistent with
HSV infection
. This is the first reported case of HSV type I presenting as an endobronchial tumour.
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PMID:Endobronchial pseudo-tumour caused by herpes simplex. 1592 68
