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Prognostic factors in patients with miliary tuberculosis
Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, 2018 Background and purpose: Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) complication has long been considered a factor associated with poor prognosis in patients with miliary tuberculosis.
Kentaro Wakamatsu +15 more
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Miliary Tuberculosis Mimicking Brain Metastasis from Renal Cell Carcinoma [PDF]
Journal of Neurocritical Care, 2018 Background Miliary tuberculosis (TB) can cause diagnostic confusion for clinicians because its radiological appearance can resemble that of metastatic cancer.
Yousang Ko +5 more
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Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2017 Miliary tuberculosis results from the lymphohematogenous spread of the tubercle bacilli to the vascular beds in the lungs and other organs. Diagnosis is made by clinical judgment and chest X-ray showing miliary mottling of the lung fields.
Bhupen Barman +5 more
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Miliary tuberculosis: A new look at an old foe
Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, 2016 Miliary tuberculosis (TB), is a fatal form of disseminated TB characterized by tiny tubercles evident on gross pathology similar to innumerable millet seeds in size and appearance.
Surendra K. Sharma +2 more
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Fatal Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis in a Patient with Miliary Tuberculosis: a Case Report
SN Comprehensive Clinical Medicine, 2022 Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a life-threatening hyperinflammatory syndrome induced by cytotoxic T-cells. Mostly, HLH is secondary to infections, malignancies, or autoimmune disorders.
Eva E. Schippers +4 more
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American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2021 We report a 29-year-old patient who presented with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) upper respiratory tract infection in addition to clinical, laboratory, and radiological findings highly suggestive of peritoneal tuberculosis (TB) without pulmonary ...
Moustafa M Elziny +3 more
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Examining Miliary Disease Etiology in a Coccidioides-Endemic Center: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Journal of Fungi, 2023 Background: A miliary pattern on chest imaging is often attributed to tuberculosis (TB) infection. However, a myriad of conditions can cause a miliary pattern, many of which are imminently life-threatening. Research Question: The primary aim of our study
Ashley M. Scott +6 more
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Metastatic Adenocarcinoma of the Lung Mimicking Miliary Tuberculosis and Pott’s Disease
Cureus, 2021 Tuberculous spondylitis (Pott’s disease) is among the frequent extra-pulmonary presentations of tuberculosis (TB). The global incidence of lung adenocarcinoma is on the rise, and it is a rare differential diagnosis of miliary shadows on chest imaging. It
D. Khan +4 more
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Clinical and radiologic characteristics of radiologically missed miliary tuberculosis
Medicine, 2021 While chest CT provides important clue for diagnosis of miliary tuberculosis (TB), patients are occasionally missed on initial CT, which might delay the diagnosis. This study was to evaluate the clinical and radiological characteristics of radiologically
J. Choe +4 more
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All that is Miliary is not tuberculosis [PDF]
Perspectives In Medical Research, 2020 Miliary pattern on radiographs are attributed always to tuberculosis even though the differential diagnoses of miliary pattern is very wide. This pattern is most commonly caused by infectious diseases and rarely by malignancies.
Vijetha S ¹, Samanvitha V 1 , Ramu M 2 , Satish Chandra K 3 , Prasad C N 4
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