Os autores apresentam um caso clinico de associção de actinomicose brônquica e tuberculose pulmonar num homem de 72 anos, com antecedentes de silicose, que foi enviado à consulta externa de Pneumologia do H.S.João para estudo de expectoração hemoptóica de repetição.

Fazem-se algumas considerações sobre actinomicose pulmonar, patologia raramente encontrada na prática clinica em Portugal, comentando-se a raridade do aparecimento simultâneo de actinomicose brônquica e tuberculose pulmonar, encontrada neste doente (1).

The authors present a case report in wich bronchial actinomicosis and pulmonary tuberculosis were found in association; this was in a 72-years-old man with silicosis, who was sent to the pneumology department of H. S. João to evaluate recurent haemoptoic sputum.

Some considerations on pulmonary actinomicosis, a rare finding in medical practice in Portugal are made, as well as some comments about the uncommum association of bronchial actinomicosis and pulmonary tuberculosis, as was found in this patient (1).