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A young man with tuberculosis presents with massive recurrent hemoptysis. Most probable cause would be.

A
Pulmonary aery
B
Bronchial aery
C
Pulomary vein
D
Superior vena cava
High-Yield Explanation
B i.e. Broncheal aery In great majority of patients hemoptysis originates from systemic rather than pulmonary aeries and the bronchial vessels are almost universally involved. (Grainger) Massive hemoptysis in a patient of T.B. is usually d/ t erosion of bronchial aery which bleeds at systemic pressure.

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