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Assessment of the N-PCR assay in diagnosis of pleural tuberculosis: detection of M. tuberculosis in pleural fluid and sputum collected in tandem. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2010
The nonspecific clinical presentation and paucibacillary nature of tuberculous pleuritis remains a challenge for diagnosis. Diagnosis of tuberculous pleural effusion depends on the demonstration of the presence of tubercle bacilli in the sputum, pleural ...
Parameet Kumar, Manas K Sen, Devendra S Chauhan, Vishwa M Katoch, Sarman Singh, Hanumanthappa K Prasad   +5 more
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Pleural Pseudo-Tumour Tuberculosis

Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal, 2023
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Mouaad Amraoui, Massine El Hammoumi, Mohamed Oukabli, El Hassane Kabiri   +3 more
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Chylothorax with Transudate: An Unusual Presentation of Tuberculosis

European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 2020
Introduction: Twenty-five per cent of tuberculosis patients have pleural tuberculosis, which is the third most common form of presentation. Most cases present as an exudative pleural effusion with just few cases reported as chylothorax in the literature.
Miguel Angel Zamora-López, Iris Camelia Farias-Navarro, Erick Joel Rendon-Ramirez   +2 more
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Does pleural tuberculosis disease pattern differ among developed and developing countries [PDF]

, 2005
SummaryBackground: A number of reports from developed countries have documented a rising age at which pleural tuberculosis occurs and increase in the frequency of reactivation disease being as the main cause of pleural involvement.Objective: To determine
Al-Khal, Abdul Latif, Bener, Abdulbari, Ghadban, Wisam, Ibrahim, Wanis H., Khinji, Aisha, Soub, Hussam, Yasin, Ruba   +6 more
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Pleural tuberculosis

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, 2016
Pleural effusions in tuberculosis are commonly seen in young adults as an immunological phenomenon occurring soon after primary infection. However, the epidemiology and demographics of tuberculous pleurisy are changing due to the impact of HIV co-infection and the increasing number of pleural effusions seen as part of re-activation disease.
B. Chakrabarti, P.D.O. Davies
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A massive hemorrhagic pleural effusion does not exclude the diagnosis of tuberculosis: a case report [PDF]

, 2009
We report a case of an immunocompetent 18-year-old man with a massive hemorrhagic, exudative, lymphocytic pleural effusion. Blind transthoracic pleural biopsy showed granuloma formation, while the pleural fluid culture was positive for Mycobacterium ...
Anastasia Amfilochiou, Antony Kopanakis, Charalampos Mermigkis, Georgios Patentalakis, Kostas Psathakis, Manolis Kastanakis, Michael Patentalakis, Napoleon Karagiannidis, Vlassis Polychronopoulos   +8 more
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Is Adenosine Deaminase in Pleural Fluid a Useful Marker for Differentiating Tuberculosis from Lung Cancer or Mesothelioma in Japan, a Country with Intermediate Incidence of Tuberculosis? [PDF]

, 2011
The objective of this study was to evaluate the utility of the determination of adenosine deaminase (ADA) level in pleural fluid for the differential diagnosis between tuberculous pleural effusion (TPE) and malignant pleural effusion (MPE) in Japan, a ...
Aoe, Keisuke, Chikamori, Kenichi, Hiraki, Akio, Kishino, Daizo, Kiura, Katsuyuki, Maeda, Tadashi, Murakami, Kazuo, Ogata, Yoshiko, Tanimoto, Mitsune, Ueoka, Hiroshi   +9 more
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Diagnostic utility of sonar guided biopsy in tuberculous effusion

Egyptian Journal of Chest Disease and Tuberculosis, 2013
Background/aim: Tuberculous pleural effusion remains the commonest cause of exudative effusions in areas with a high prevalence of tuberculosis and histological examination of pleural tissue is the gold standard for its diagnosis.
Ayman H. Abd El-Zaher, Ibrahim Salah, Mohamed Hantera, Radwa Oreby, Ebrahim Abaas   +4 more
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A 22-year-old man with pleural tuberculosis associated hydropneumothorax: Case report and literature review. [PDF]

, 2016
A 22-year-old Asian male presented with fever, non-productive cough, right-sided pleuritic chest pain and was found to have a large right hydropneumothorax. A chest tube was placed. Pleural fluid analysis revealed a lymphocytic predominant exudate and he
Cowan, MD, Scott W., Hehn, Boyd, Manoff, MD, David, Price, MD, Thea, Sharan, Lauren A   +4 more
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Advances in imaging chest tuberculosis: blurring of differences between children and adults [PDF]

, 2009
This article reviews the ongoing role of imaging in the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) and its complications. A modern imaging classification of TB, taking into account both adults and children and the blurring of differences in the presentation patterns,
Ahmad, Al-Nasser, Andronikou, Andronikou, Andronikou, Andronikou, Andronikou, Bosch-Marcet, Bosch-Marcet, Buckingham, Burrill, Casas, Conces, De Backer, De Backer, De Villiers, den Boon, du Plessis, Erlank, Erlank, Fraser, Glicklich, Goodman, Goussard, Griffith-Richards, Grobbelaar, Gulati, Hamilton, Haramati, Hartman, Hopewell, Im, Jeong, Kim, Kim, Lee, Lee, Leung, Lighter, Marais, Maydell, Moon, Morris, Nakanishi, Neufang, Perlman, Raviglione, Reid, Rodriguez, Santelli, Scheepers, Stead, Swingler, Theron, Van Dyck, Van Rie, Vanhoenacker, Verver, Verver, Wall, Westcott, Woodring, Yilmaz, Zellweger   +63 more
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