Publications by authors named "Bharath Bg"
Background: Aggressive fibromatosis (AF) is a benign tumor that usually has a locally aggressive and recurrent disease course. Reports of association between AF and malignancies have been reported infrequently.
Case: We report a case of a 49-years lady who had papillary thyroid carcinoma associated with a distinct desmoid tumor occurring concurrently on the right side of the neck.
Objective: To explore the knowledge of Indian patients with sarcoma about their illness in the sarcoma medical oncology clinic of a tertiary care centre.
Method: This prospective cross-sectional questionnaire-based study was done on patients attending the adult sarcoma clinic at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. Patients aged between 18 and 60 years who gave consent and could understand Hindi or English were recruited for the study.
Background: Neurofibromatosis type 1 is an inherited cancer predisposition syndrome that is caused by a mutation in the NF1 gene that encodes neurofibromin. Patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 have a higher risk of gastrointestinal stromal tumor. This study reports the case of a patient with gastrointestinal stromal tumor who was later diagnosed to have neurofibromatosis type 1 and, unlike usual features, had some uncommon features such as occurrence at an early age and unusual site of origin.
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- The study aimed to assess how effective different CT chest findings are in diagnosing the recurrence of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) in patients with a history of treatment.
- A total of 130 patients suspected of having recurrent PTB were analyzed, leading to 62 in the final results, with cough being the most common symptom.
- The research concluded that necrotic mediastinal lymph nodes on CT scans had the highest diagnostic accuracy, while microbiological tests like BAL GeneXpert provided excellent sensitivity and specificity for identifying recurrence in PTB patients.
Splenic Abscess Caused by Salmonella Typhi and Co-Infection with Leptospira.
J Assoc Physicians India
December 2017
Splenic abscesses caused by Salmonella typhi are a very rare complication of typhoid fever in this era of use of specific antibiotics. Co-infection with Leptospira in such a patient is even rarer. Clinical diagnosis of splenic abscess caused by Salmonella is difficult owing to its rarity, being insidious in onset and having nonspecific clinical presentation.
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