Dr. Theodore R. Pak (Medicine): A 34-year-old woman was admitted to this hospital with hypercortisolism in the context of a metastatic pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor. The patient had been well until ...

A lung abscess is a localized (usually >2.0cm in diameter), suppurative necrotizing collection occurring within the pulmonary parenchyma. A number of infectious agents can be responsible for abscess ...

A COVID-19 patient coughing up blood was found to have cavities in his lungs, according to his doctors. The unnamed 52-year-old man visited Miriam Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, three weeks ...

HISTOPLASMOSIS, a generalized fungous disease that begins in the lungs, 1 is world-wide in distribution, but the main endemic area comprises the Mississippi valley of the United States. 2 It is the ...

Severe (grade ≥ 3) pulmonary hemorrhage (PH) in advanced non–small-cell lung cancer was observed in two prospective, randomized, phase II (N = 99) and phase III (N = 878) trials of bevacizumab plus ...

An 87-year-old man presents to Okinawa National Hospital in Japan following referral for evaluation of an abnormal shadow on the left lower lobe of his lung. This was detected in December 2016, during ...

A patient presented with a 2-week history of cough, foul-smelling sputum, fever, hemoptysis, pleuritic chest pain, and clubbing. There is a history of weight loss and alcoholism. Laboratory data show ...