Mediastinal Lymphadenopathy: Melioidosis Mimicking Tuberculosis.

Trop Med Health

Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, University Medicine Cluster, National University Heath System , Singapore ; Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore.

Published: June 2015

Melioidosis has protean manifestations and often mimics other disease processes. We present a case of a gentleman presenting with chronic cough whose initial radiographic findings of a cavitatory lung lesion and mediastinal lymphadenopathy were suggestive of tuberculosis. This case highlights the important role that bronchoscopy and endobronchial ultrasound can play in the diagnosis of melioidosis in patients presenting with mediastinal lymphadenopathy whose initial microbiological findings from sputum are negative for tuberculosis.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4442774PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.2149/tmh.2014-42DOI Listing

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