Letter to the EditorFatal haemoptysis due to mucormycotic intrapulmonary arterial aneurysm
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Case report
A 32-year-old female was detected to be a diabetic after spontaneous abortion following 3 months amenorrhoea. A period of 1 month later, she developed low grade fever, cough with mucopurulent expectoration, rhinorrhoea and right-sided chest pain. On examination, she was afebrile with tachycardia and tachypnoea. The trachea was shifted to the left; there was decreased breath sounds over the right lower zone with crepitations and bronchial sounds. Haematological investigation revealed mild
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