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Respirology Case Reports, 2023 Key message Tuberculous pleurisy is a main cause of pleural effusions. The main histological abnormalities in pleural biopsy of tuberculous pleurisy are caseating granulomas and epithelioid cell granuloma.
Minlong Zhang, Cuiping Yang, Yinghua Guo
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Brucella pleuritis misdiagnosed as tuberculous pleuritis: a case report
Journal of International Medical Research, 2023 Pleurisy and pleural effusion caused by Brucella infection are rare. However, clinicians lack an understanding of these possibilities, and the underlying disorder is easy to misdiagnose.
Yong Yang +3 more
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Artificial Cells, Nanomedicine, and Biotechnology, 2019 Purpose To evaluate the diagnostic effect of sequential detection of Adenosine deaminase (ADA) screening and T-SPOT assay on tuberculosis (TB) pleurisy in pleural effusion patients.Materials and methods 248 pleural effusion patients (172 TB and 76 non-TB)
Mingxia Feng +3 more
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Application of NGS in Diagnosis of Tuberculous Pleurisy with Multiple Negative Tests: A Case Report
Infection and Drug Resistance, 2020 Background Tuberculous pleurisy is inflammation caused by direct infection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) and/or delayed allergic reaction of the pleura to MTB thallus components.
H. Wu, Jiahui Wei, D. Yu
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Tumor markers in pleural effusion caused by bronchogenic carcinoma and tuberculosis [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2002 Concentrations of carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and carbon hydrate antigen (CA) 50 were measured in pleural effusion and sera of 57 patients with bronchogenic carcinoma and in 73 patients in whom the effusion was the sequelae of tuberculosis pleurisy ...
Plavec Goran +4 more
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Вестник хирургии имени И.И. Грекова, 2018 The objective of the study is еo evaluate the possibilities of videothoracoscopy in the cases of pleurisy of inflammatory nature of specific and non-specific etiology.Material and methods. We carried out the retrospective analysis of medical histories of
S. A. Plaksin, L. I. Farshatova
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Pleural Effusion Caused by Mycolicibacterium mageritense in an Immunocompetent Host: A Case Report
Frontiers in Medicine, 2021 Mycolicibacterium mageritense (M. mageritense) is a rare species among rapidly growing mycobacteria, and M. mageritense pleurisy is very rare. Here, we report for the first time, an immunocompetent patient with pleurisy caused by M. mageritense.
Takayuki Niitsu +18 more
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Diagnosis of Pulmonary and Extra-pulmonary Tuberculosis: Role of Adenosine Deaminase Levels in Different Body Fluids [PDF]
Al-Anbar Medical Journal, 2021 Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the major public health problems, particularly in developing countries. There are many tools to diagnose TB, one of them is the estimation of the level of adenosine deaminase (ADA) in various fluids in the body ...
Saleem O. Almawla . +2 more
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QJM : monthly journal of the Association of Physicians, 2020 OBJECTIVE This study aimed to conduct a systematic review of the diagnostic value of interleukin-27 (IL-27) for tuberculous pleurisy. METHODS Literature on IL-27 diagnosis of tuberculous pleurisy was retrieved and screened from 6 databases (4 English ...
Qian Zhang +4 more
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