Case 26-1974

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Presentation of CaseA 27-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of hemoptysis.She was well until two and a half years previously, when she made a six-month voyage to the Orient with extended intervals in Nepal and India. Multiple episodes of bloody diarrhea occurred and were treated with diphenoxylate hydrochloride and iodochlorhydroxyquin. Two months after she returned to this country jaundice developed, and she was treated for infectious hepatitis at another hospital. An x-ray film of the chest revealed "a spot on the lung" that disappeared on follow-up films. Ten months before admission there was the onset of . . .