Massive bleeding caused by bronchoscopic biopsy of an abnormal bronchial artery.
- Author:
In Seek KIM
1
;
Jae Eun PAK
;
Seung Wook JUNG
;
Yeon Jae KIM
;
Byung Ki LEE
;
Dong Myung HUH
;
Kyung Rak SOHN
Author Information
1. Department of Internal Medicine, Fatima Hospital, Daegu, Korea.
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Bronchoscopy;
Biopsy;
Hemorrhage;
Bronchial arteries
- MeSH:
Adult;
Arteries;
Biopsy*;
Bronchi;
Bronchial Arteries*;
Bronchoscopy;
Female;
Hemoptysis;
Hemorrhage*;
Humans;
Mucous Membrane
- From:Korean Journal of Medicine
2004;67(Suppl 3):S757-S760
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
A 39 years old woman was admitted to the hospital because of recurrent hemoptysis. On a bronchoscopic inspection, nodular shaped mass-like lesions were found on the orifice of right middle and lower lobar bronchus and a biopsy was performed. This was immediately followed by massive bleeding into the airways. The bleeding could not be controlled by nonsurgical treatment. Immediately she underwent a right middle and lower bilobectomy in order to control of bleeding. Biopsy revealed the bleeding to have been caused by a biopsy injury of an abnormal artery that had run superficially in the bronchial mucosa.
