A patient seen with recurrent hemoptysis was found to have large systemic artery-pulmonary vessel fistulae. Associated anomalies were unique, and included hypogenetic left thorax, hypoplastic unilobar left lung, and dextrocardia. Left pneumonectomy was curative.
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