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Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine, 2021 Introduction: Tuberculosis (TB) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality globally. Extrapulmonary TB (EPTB) constitutes about 15%–20% of all TB patients, but accounts for 50% among HIV-coinfected. Confirmation of microbial diagnosis of EPTB is usually challenging.
Alladi Mohan, Mikashmi Kohli
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Extrapulmonary Manifestations of Sarcoidosis [PDF]
Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America, 2013 Sarcoidosis is a systemic disease characterized by the development of epithelioid granulomas in various organs. Although the lungs are involved in most patients with sarcoidosis, virtually any organ can be affected. Recognition of extrapulmonary sarcoidosis requires awareness of the organs most commonly affected, such as the skin and the eyes, and ...
Deepak A Rao, Paul F Dellaripa
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Role of Corticosteroids in Tubercular Pleural Effusion: A Prospective Interventional Study from a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital, Telangana, India [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2022 Introduction: Tuberculosis is a major public health problem in majority of the developing countries. Pleural effusion develops when fluid accumulates between the parietal and visceral pleura.
Sunitha Dubba +5 more
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Extrapulmonary pneumocystosis [PDF]
Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 1997 Extrapulmonary pneumocystosis is an exceedingly rare complication of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP). Prior to the advent of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) epidemic, only 16 cases of extrapulmonary pneumocystosis in individuals who were immunocompromised by a variety of underlying diseases had been reported. Since the beginning of
V L, Ng, D M, Yajko, W K, Hadley
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Blood Agar for the Isolation of M. tuberculosis in Comparison with LJ Medium and BACTEC MGIT 960 [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2018 Introduction: The evolution of laboratory diagnostic methods of Tuberculosis (TB) over the past few years are designed to achieve more rapid, less expensive, and accurate results.
Swetha Kamble +2 more
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Isolated soft tissue tuberculosis: a case report and literature review
Frontiers in Medicine, 2023 Soft tissue tuberculosis is a rare extrapulmonary form of tuberculosis with limited experience in diagnosis and treatment. Soft tissue tuberculosis is an extrapulmonary infection with atypical clinical symptoms that can be easily misdiagnosed.
Baolin Chen +12 more
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Microorganisms, 2023 Accurate and appropriate extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) diagnosis remains challenging due to its paucibacillary nature, requirement of invasive collection procedures, and lack of sensitive tests.
Mohammad Khaja Mafij Uddin +9 more
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, 2019 Extrapulmonary involvement can occur in isolation or along with a pulmonary focus as in the case of patients with disseminated tuberculosis (TB). The recent human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) pandemic has resulted in changing epidemiology and has once again brought extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) into ...
S K, Sharma, A, Mohan
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Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology, 2019 Diagnosis of Tuberculosis (TB) is a challenging problem with the currently available conventional methods such as microscopy for Acid Fast Bacilli (AFB) and culture techniques.The diagnosis of Extra pulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) is still more ...
V. Mangayarkarasi +3 more
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Extrapulmonary tuberculosis [PDF]
Bionatura, 2020 Extrapulmonary tuberculosis can be confused with other pathologies because of the variety of symptoms it generates according to the affected organ. So, extrapulmonary tuberculosis must always be taken into account by medical staff within the differential diagnosis.
Diego Valarezo-Sevilla +2 more
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