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Lady Windermere Syndrome
Etiology:
- Mycobacterium intracellulare
Epidemiology:
- frail, elderly women with scoliosis or pectus excavatum
Clinical manifestations:
- cough reflex suppressed
- right middle lobe syndrome
Laboratory:
- sputum for acid fast bacilli
Radiology:
- chest X-ray
- right middle lobe/lingular infiltrate
- nodular opacities with bronchiectasis in the right middle lobe
Notes:
- named after Lady Windermere, a character in Oscar Wilde's 1892 play Lady Windermere's fan [3]
General
right middle lobe syndrome
References
- NEJM JWatch Question of the Week. March 27, 2018
https://knowledgeplus.nejm.org/question-of-week/562/
- Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams &
Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999
- Weerakkody Y, Gaillard F
Lady Windermere syndrome
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