• Chest · May 2019

    Case Reports

    A Young Woman With a Rapidly Growing Thoracic Tumor.

    • Yu Kuang Lai, Brittany Holmes, and Haiwei Henry Guo.
    • Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Stanford, CA. Electronic address: kuang2@stanford.edu.
    • Chest. 2019 May 1; 155 (5): e145-e148.

    Case PresentationA 38-year-old woman presented with 2 months of dry cough, progressive shortness of breath, central chest pain, nausea, vomiting, and dizziness. She was previously healthy and was not taking any medications. She denied fever, night sweats, or weight loss. She had a two pack-year smoking history and had quit smoking at 27 years of age. She denied drug use and had no recent travel history. Family history was pertinent for ovarian cancer, breast cancer, and colon cancer.Copyright © 2019 American College of Chest Physicians. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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