Extrapulmonary tuberculosis active infection misdiagnosed as cancer: Mycobacterium tuberculosis disease in patients at a Comprehensive Cancer Center (2001-2005)

Cancer

Volumn 104, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2882-2887

  Aisenberg, Gabriel M ^a   Jacobson, Kalen ^a   Chemaly, Roy F ^a   Rolston, Kenneth V ^a   Raad, Isaam I ^a   Safdar, Amar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Extrapulmonary; Hematological malignancy; Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; PREDNISONE; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BONE PAIN; CANCER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COUGHING; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DRUG MEGADOSE; DYSPNEA; EXTRAPULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LUNG CAVITATION; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEUTROPENIA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOLID TUMOR; UNITED STATES; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; LUNG CANCER; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULIN TEST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEOPLASMS; ONCOLOGY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 29144494825     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.21541     Document Type: Review

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