Pulmonary & Respiratory Medicine

Hollow in the Lung with Hoarseness: An Uncommon Association with Pulmonary Thromboembolism

Abstract

Sushil Upadhyay

A case is presented where focus of all investigations centred around a lung cavity which in association hoarseness appeared in all probability a lung cancer after no response to anti tuberculosis chemotherapy. Oxygen desaturation on few steps of walk lead to further work up concluding with diagnosis of pulmonary thromboembolism with cavitary infract and cardiovocal syndrome.