A massive hemorrhagic pleural effusion does not exclude the diagnosis of tuberculosis: A case report

Cases Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Mermigkis, Charalampos ^a   Kopanakis, Antony ^b   Psathakis, Kostas ^a   Karagiannidis, Napoleon ^b   Kastanakis, Manolis ^b   Patentalakis, Michael ^b   Amfilochiou, Anastasia ^b   Patentalakis, Georgios ^b   Polychronopoulos, Vlassis ^b  

^a 401 GENERAL MILITARY HOSPITAL OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Sismanoglio General District Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEVER; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PLEURA BIOPSY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; THORACOCENTESIS; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOUS PLEURISY;

EID: 77953406264     PISSN: 17571626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4076/1757-1626-2-8707     Document Type: Article

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