Bilateral nodular pulmonary tuberculomas simulating metastatic disease

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Kant, Surya ^a   Saheer, S ^a   Prakash, Ved ^a   Hasan, Ghulam ^a   Jabeed, P ^a   Husain, Nuzhat ^a  

^a KING GEORGE'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN;

ADULT; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BILATERAL NODULAR PULMONARY TUBERCULOMA; CASE REPORT; CASEATING GRANULOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HEMATOMA; HISTIOCYTOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATION; LANGERHANS CELL; LUNG INFARCTION; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG NODULE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; LYMPHOMA; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MYCOSIS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENDU OSLER WEBER DISEASE; RHEUMATOID NODULE; SARCOIDOSIS; SEPTIC EMBOLI; SILICOSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

EID: 79955550177     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr.11.2010.3539     Document Type: Article

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