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A 45-year-old woman with no significant medical history had 1 month of productive cough empirically treated with azithromycin and dyspnoea on exertion. She was never a smoker and denied any constitutional symptoms, including unexpected weight loss. A CT of the chest was performed after she developed haemoptysis, which demonstrated a 6.3x4.6 cm right hilar mass with hilar, subcarinal and cardiophrenic adenopathy (figure 1A). She underwent bronchoscopy which revealed complete occlusion of the right middle lobe by a tumour extending into the bronchus intermedius. Debridement of this mass was performed, with re-establishment of airway patency to the right lower lobe. Pathology from the debrided tumour as well as the subcarinal lymph node was consistent with poorly differentiated non-small cell lung carcinoma with Thyroid Transcription Factor 1 (TTF-1) and Programmed Death-Ligand 1 (PD-L1) negativity. Due to high clinical suspicion, the tissue samples were transferred to another facility for additional assessment. MRI...
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