A 31-Year-Old Female with an Acute Episode of Cough and Hemoptysis
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Guitti Pourdowlat , Abbas Fadaii , Shahram Kahkouee 1 WHAT IS YOUR DIAGNOSIS? A 31 year-old female was admitted to the hospital with an acute episode of cough and hemoptysis, along with low grade fever. She was nonsmoker without any previous history of respiratory symptoms. Laboratory findings showed WBC count 12,200, NEUT: 74%, LYM: 21%, and EOS: 5%. 1 Chronic Respiratory Diseases Research Center , National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NRITLD), Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, TehranIran, 2 Pulmonology Department, Labbafi Nejad Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
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