Acute hemoptysis and pulmonary hemorrhage after sports as presentation of intralobar sequestration
J Groetzner, T Kleffner, G Hülskamp, P Feindt, M Holzer · Zentralblatt für Chirurgie · 2011 · Heft 10
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Zusammenfassung
Intralobar sequestration (ILS) is a rare anomaly that is usually diagnosed with symptoms of cough, expectoration, or recurrent pneumonia in children. We experienced a case of an 11-year-old boy with massive hemoptysis after judo sports. He was admitted to hospital and intubated due to respiratory failure. His chest-computed tomography (CT) scan which was performed without contrast agent revealed a large intrapulmonary hematoma or tumour, mimicking traumatic hemothorax. Due to blood loss and circulatory instability, emergency thoracotomy was performed and a massive intralobar hemorrhage due to a ruptured intralob…