Clinical problem-solving. What's the connection? - A 26-year-old white man presented to our referral hospital with a 1-month history of persistent cough productive of white sputum, which was occasionally tinged with blood

N Engl J Med. 2008 Feb 7;358(6):626-32. doi: 10.1056/NEJMcps067315.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aortic Dissection / etiology
  • Biopsy
  • Collagen Type III / genetics
  • Cough / etiology
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome / complications
  • Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome / diagnosis*
  • Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome / genetics
  • Fibroblasts / metabolism
  • Hemoptysis / etiology
  • Humans
  • Lung / diagnostic imaging
  • Lung / pathology*
  • Male
  • Mutation, Missense
  • Pneumothorax / etiology
  • Renal Artery
  • Skin / pathology
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Substances

  • Collagen Type III