Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Case of the Month

Case of the Month AUTOPSY AND MEDICINE Randy Hanzlick, MD, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Ga; Larry Nicohols, MD, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pa; and the Autopsy Committee of the College of American Pathologists 59-YEAR-OLD woman presented with a tablish such diagnoses when a patient dies before a de- 13.5-kg weight loss, malaise, and chronic finitive diagnosis can be made clinically. cough of 2 months’ duration. The re- The emergence and reemergence of fatal infectious sults of a chest x-ray examination sug- diseases and unexplained deaths due to possibly infec- A gested a cavitary lesion of the left upper tious causes should cause a resurgence in the use of the 1-3 lobe, and based on empirical evidence, she was given an- autopsy as a diagnostic procedure. Although the use- tituberculous medications. Sputum cultures had not yet fulness of postmortem cultures is sometimes limited be- been obtained when, 2 days after admission, she was found cause of postmortem growth of bacterial contaminants dead on the floor in the bathroom of her hospital room or antibiotic treatment during life (which may result in with copious amounts of blood emanating from the nose cultures negative for infectious agents), new methods, and mouth. A http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png JAMA Internal Medicine American Medical Association

Case of the Month

Abstract

AUTOPSY AND MEDICINE Randy Hanzlick, MD, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Ga; Larry Nicohols, MD, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pa; and the Autopsy Committee of the College of American Pathologists 59-YEAR-OLD woman presented with a tablish such diagnoses when a patient dies before a de- 13.5-kg weight loss, malaise, and chronic finitive diagnosis can be made clinically. cough of 2 months’ duration. The re- The emergence and reemergence of fatal...
Loading next page...
 
/lp/american-medical-association/case-of-the-month-t1iiEbfo2M

References (1)

Publisher
American Medical Association
Copyright
Copyright 1998 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved. Applicable FARS/DFARS Restrictions Apply to Government Use.
ISSN
2168-6106
eISSN
2168-6114
DOI
10.1001/archinte.158.5.426
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

AUTOPSY AND MEDICINE Randy Hanzlick, MD, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Ga; Larry Nicohols, MD, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pa; and the Autopsy Committee of the College of American Pathologists 59-YEAR-OLD woman presented with a tablish such diagnoses when a patient dies before a de- 13.5-kg weight loss, malaise, and chronic finitive diagnosis can be made clinically. cough of 2 months’ duration. The re- The emergence and reemergence of fatal infectious sults of a chest x-ray examination sug- diseases and unexplained deaths due to possibly infec- A gested a cavitary lesion of the left upper tious causes should cause a resurgence in the use of the 1-3 lobe, and based on empirical evidence, she was given an- autopsy as a diagnostic procedure. Although the use- tituberculous medications. Sputum cultures had not yet fulness of postmortem cultures is sometimes limited be- been obtained when, 2 days after admission, she was found cause of postmortem growth of bacterial contaminants dead on the floor in the bathroom of her hospital room or antibiotic treatment during life (which may result in with copious amounts of blood emanating from the nose cultures negative for infectious agents), new methods, and mouth. A

Journal

JAMA Internal MedicineAmerican Medical Association

Published: Mar 9, 1998

There are no references for this article.