Endobronchial tuberculosis mimicking pulmonary neoplasm

A 64-year-old Chinese lady presented to us with three months history of chronic dry cough and weight loss without haemoptysis. There was no fever. She had never smoked. Initial chest x-ray (CXR) and thoracic CT showed left upper lobe collapse for which she underwent bronchoscopy. The appearance was...

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Main Authors: Abdul Rani, Mohammed Fauzi, Abdul Samad, Humairah, Ahlawat, Sunita
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Language:English
Published: Faculty of Medicine, International Islamic University Malaysia 2002
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spelling iium-58702017-06-21T00:31:42Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/5870/ Endobronchial tuberculosis mimicking pulmonary neoplasm Abdul Rani, Mohammed Fauzi Abdul Samad, Humairah Ahlawat, Sunita R Medicine (General) A 64-year-old Chinese lady presented to us with three months history of chronic dry cough and weight loss without haemoptysis. There was no fever. She had never smoked. Initial chest x-ray (CXR) and thoracic CT showed left upper lobe collapse for which she underwent bronchoscopy. The appearance was suggestive of submucosal tumour. She needed a second bronchoscopy that showed caseating granuloma and smear positive for tuberculosis. She made good clinical recovery with anti tuberculosis treatment but review CXR at four months showed a mass lesion in the left apex for which she underwent fine needle aspiration cytology. This showed healing granuloma compatible with tuberculosis. This case was unusual to us because it had led us to believe that we were dealing with malignancy twice. Faculty of Medicine, International Islamic University Malaysia 2002 Article NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/5870/1/ENDOBRONCHIAL_TUBERCULOSIS_MIMICKING_PULMONARY_NEOPLASM.pdf Abdul Rani, Mohammed Fauzi and Abdul Samad, Humairah and Ahlawat, Sunita (2002) Endobronchial tuberculosis mimicking pulmonary neoplasm. International Medical Journal Malaysia, 1 (1). ISSN 1823-4631 http://www.eimjm.com/Vol1-No1/Vol-No1-D2.html
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Abdul Rani, Mohammed Fauzi
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Ahlawat, Sunita
Endobronchial tuberculosis mimicking pulmonary neoplasm
description A 64-year-old Chinese lady presented to us with three months history of chronic dry cough and weight loss without haemoptysis. There was no fever. She had never smoked. Initial chest x-ray (CXR) and thoracic CT showed left upper lobe collapse for which she underwent bronchoscopy. The appearance was suggestive of submucosal tumour. She needed a second bronchoscopy that showed caseating granuloma and smear positive for tuberculosis. She made good clinical recovery with anti tuberculosis treatment but review CXR at four months showed a mass lesion in the left apex for which she underwent fine needle aspiration cytology. This showed healing granuloma compatible with tuberculosis. This case was unusual to us because it had led us to believe that we were dealing with malignancy twice.
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author Abdul Rani, Mohammed Fauzi
Abdul Samad, Humairah
Ahlawat, Sunita
author_facet Abdul Rani, Mohammed Fauzi
Abdul Samad, Humairah
Ahlawat, Sunita
author_sort Abdul Rani, Mohammed Fauzi
title Endobronchial tuberculosis mimicking pulmonary neoplasm
title_short Endobronchial tuberculosis mimicking pulmonary neoplasm
title_full Endobronchial tuberculosis mimicking pulmonary neoplasm
title_fullStr Endobronchial tuberculosis mimicking pulmonary neoplasm
title_full_unstemmed Endobronchial tuberculosis mimicking pulmonary neoplasm
title_sort endobronchial tuberculosis mimicking pulmonary neoplasm
publisher Faculty of Medicine, International Islamic University Malaysia
publishDate 2002
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/5870/
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http://irep.iium.edu.my/5870/1/ENDOBRONCHIAL_TUBERCULOSIS_MIMICKING_PULMONARY_NEOPLASM.pdf
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