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Cavitary lung opacity of unusual cause during Behçet disease |
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| Authors: | Donia Chebbi Chifa Damak Faten Frikha Walid Abid Mohamed Rebai Mouna Snoussi Raida Ben Salah Sameh Marzouk Abdessalem Hentati Zouhir Bahloul |
| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Internal Medicine, Hedi Chaker University Hospital, Sfax Tunisia ; 2. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Habib Bourguiba University Hospital, Sfax Tunisia |
| Abstract: | Pulmonary artery aneurysm must be evoked in front of any hemoptysis in a patient with Behçet disease as it requires urgent immunosuppressive therapy and often surgery. |
| Keywords: | Behç et disease, cavitary lung opacity, corticosteroids, cyclophosphamide, intracardiac thrombosis, pulmonary artery aneurysm |