Medical Image - (2015) Volume 5, Issue 1
A Thoracic Tomography Image of a 29 Year-Old Patient Presenting with a 3 Month History of Fever, Malaise, Dry Cough and Refractory Sinusitis
- Kawano-Dourado L, Arimura F, Ayres PP, Tavares MS and Carmen Barbas*
- University of São Paulo, Brazil
*Corresponding Author:
Carmen Barbas, Associate Professor of Pneumology, University of São Paulo, Brazil
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Description
Chest HRCT displayed cavitated nodules and masses (Figure 1).
Positive PR3-ANCA and a lung biopsy showing necrotizing vasculitis, necrotizing geographic granulomatous inflammation with negative microbiological work-up confirmed the diagnosis of Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (former Wegener´s granulomatosis).
Citation: Kawano-Dourado L, Arimura F, Ayres PP, Tavares MS, Barbas CS (2015) A Thoracic Tomography Image of a 29 Year-Old Patient Presenting with a 3 Month History of Fever, Malaise, Dry Cough and Refractory Sinusitis. Emergency Med 5: i101.
Copyright: © 2015 Barbas CS, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
