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Hemoptysis
Coughing up of blood or blood-tinged sputum
- indicates inflammation, infection, infarction, cancer
Must be distinsuished from epistaxis, gum bleeding, hematemesis
Colour - fresh bright red, or old altered blood
quantity - streaked with sputum?
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