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KMID : 0378120030300010159
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Chungnam Medical Journal
2003 Volume.30 No. 1 p.159 ~ p.164
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Pulmonary Artery Aneurysm Manifesting as Chronic Cough in Behcet’s Disease
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Jeong Seung-Hyeon
Song Joo-Kyung
Jeong Seong-Su
Kang Sang-Ok
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Abstract
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Pulmonary Artery Aneurysm Manifesting as Chronic cough in Behcet’s disease
Behcet’s disease is a relapsing chronic inflammation disorder of unknown etiology. Although Behcet’s disease has originally been described as a triad of recurrent oral aphthous ulceration, genital ulceration and uveitis, it is now recognized as a multisystem disease with vasculitis as the main pathological finding. Clinical manifestations additional to this triad include involvement of the skin, joints, large vessels, lung, gastrointestinal and genitourinary tracts, brain. We report a case of pulmonary artery aneurysm manifesting as chronic cough in Behcet’s disease. She was a 47 year-old woman with Bechet’s disease treated with prednisolone and colchicine. She had suffered from chronic cough for several years, but been treated only with antitussive agents. Chest CT revealed multifocal patchy consolidation in lung parenchym and aneurysmal dialatation of pulmonary artery. We diagnosed pulmonary aneurysm with CT finding as the cause of chronic cough.
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KEYWORD
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Behcet’s disease, Chronic cough, Pulmonary aneurysm, Hemoptysis
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