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Pleural effusion is a common respiratory disease worldwide; however, rapid and accurate diagnoses of tuberculosis pleural effusion (TPE) and malignancy pleural effusion (MPE) remain challenging.
Ping Luo +16 more
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Chylothorax with Transudate: An Unusual Presentation of Tuberculosis
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 +2 more
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Pleural Pseudo-Tumour Tuberculosis
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Mouaad Amraoui +3 more
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High Prevalence of Tuberculosis among Adults with Fever Admitted at a Tertiary Hospital in North-western Tanzania [PDF]
Tuberculosis is a leading cause of death in developing countries where HIV is endemic. This hospital based study was done to estimate the magnitude of pulmonary and extra-pulmonary tuberculosis and to determine predictors of tuberculosis among febrile ...
Kabangila, Rodrick +4 more
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Report of results of pleural biopsy (Needle biopsy and open biopsy) in 108 cases and 245 biopsies [PDF]
1. The results of 245 pleural biopsies perfomed in 108 patients including 219 pleural needle biopsies and 26 pleural open biopsies were reported. The method of pleural biopsy seems to be superior to any other currently available diagnostic procedures for
Mc, Lt. Col., Sohn, Isaack
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PadChest: A large chest x-ray image dataset with multi-label annotated reports [PDF]
We present a labeled large-scale, high resolution chest x-ray dataset for the automated exploration of medical images along with their associated reports.
Bustos, Aurelia +3 more
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Diagnostic utility of sonar guided biopsy in tuberculous effusion
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 +4 more
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Empyema necessitans and a persistent air leak associated with rupture of an anaerobic lung abscess due to bacteroides [PDF]
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Blyth, Kevin G., Sharma, Varun
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A massive hemorrhagic pleural effusion does not exclude the diagnosis of tuberculosis: a case report [PDF]
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 +8 more
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OBJETIVO: Avaliar a acurácia da dosagem de IgA contra o antígeno recombinante HspX no líquido pleural e no soro de pacientes com derrame pleural para o diagnóstico de tuberculose pleural. MÉTODOS: Estudo transversal de teste diagnóstico.
Loanda Carvalho Sant' Ana Limongi +3 more
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