Pulmonary haemorrhage

Last revised by Daniel J Bell on 15 Oct 2024

Pulmonary haemorrhage is a rather broad term given to describe any form of bleeding into the lung and can arise from a myriad of causes. In a very traditional sense it is described when the following constellation of clinicoradiological features occurs simultaneously 2 (although this is never an absolute necessity):

Pulmonary haemorrhage is arbitrarily divided into two broad groups with a subtype

See also

Cases and figures

  • Figure 1: gross pathology
  • Case 1: localised pulmonary haemorrhage
  • Case 2
  • Case 3
  • Case 4: Goodpasture syndrome
  • Case 5

Imaging differential diagnosis

  • Squamous cell carcinoma of the lung
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