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[Pseudotumoral bronchopulmonary tuberculosis mimicking cancer in an immunocompetent patient].
Pan Afr Med J
July 2019
Service de Pneumologie, CHU Avicenne, Rabat, Maroc.
Tuberculosis is a disease caused by tubercle bacillus infection. It can affect all of the body's organs. Pulmonary tuberculosis accounts for a little more than 50% of its occurrences.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPlugs of the Air Passages: A Clinicopathologic Review.
Chest
November 2016
Department of Pulmonary Medicine, the Respiratory Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH. Electronic address:
Although mucus is a normal product of the tracheobronchial tree, some diseases of the respiratory tract are characterized by unusually thick (inspissated) forms of mucus that accumulate within the airways. These are known as mucus plugs. The pathologic composition of these plugs is surprisingly diverse and, in many cases, correlates with distinctive clinical, radiologic, and bronchoscopic findings.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPleural tuberculosis mimicking inflammatory pseudotumour.
J Clin Diagn Res
April 2013
Post Graduate Student, Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims), Kalapet, Puducherry, India .
A pseudotumour is a rare presentation of bronchopulmonary tuberculosis which occurs in immunocompetent patients, which can simulate malignancy, both clinically and radiologically, and may cause delay in its diagnosis and treatment. The incidence of bronchopulmonary pseudotumours was found to vary from 2-4%, as was seen in various studies. A mycobacterial pseudotumour of the pleura is a rare entity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[Pulmonary atinomycosis: a great clinical polymorphism].
Tunis Med
April 2011
Service de Pneumologie lbn Nafiss, Hôpital Abderrahmen Mami, Ariana, Tunisie.
Background: Pulmonary actinomycosis is a rare bacteriological disease, caracterized by local suppuration and an extensive fibroinflammatory process, with a possible pseudotumoral outcome.
Aim: To report a new observation of a pulmonary actinomycosis.
Case Report: A 52-year-old patient, smoker, admitted in our department for infectious pneumopathy complicated by purulent pleurisy.
[Diagnostic difficulty in bronchopulmonary tuberculous pseudotumor].
Rev Mal Respir
January 2011
Service de Pneumologie, Pavillon 2, Hôpital A Mami, 2080 Ariana, Tunisie.
Pseudotumour is a rare presentation of bronchopulmonary tuberculosis, occurring in immunocompetent patients, which simulates lung cancer and may thus cause diagnostic difficulty. To assess the frequency and clinical features of tuberculous pseudotumour in immunocompetent patients, we analyzed all cases of pulmonary tuberculosis hospitalized in our department. Tuberculous pseudotumour was defined by the presence of a bronchial or pulmonary lesion suggestive of lung cancer.
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