Rupture of therapeutic oleothorax leading to paraffin oil aspiration and dissemination of tuberculosis - A fatal late complication of tuberculosis therapy in the 1940s

Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 110, Issue 20, 1998, Pages 725-728

  Kniehl, Eberhard ^a,c   Wenzler, Alexander ^b   Joggerst, Brigitte ^b   Schorn, Thomas ^b   Barcsay, Eduard ^b  

^a Zentrum Labormedizin M

^b Klinikum Karlsruhe   (Germany)

^c Zentrum Labormedizin M   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lipid pneumonia; M. tuberculosis DNA PCR; Oleothorax; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

LIQUID PARAFFIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RISK FACTOR; RUPTURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; COLLAPSE THERAPY; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PARAFFIN; PNEUMONIA, LIPID; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0032582577     PISSN: 00435325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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