A massive hemorrhagic pleural effusion does not exclude the diagnosis of tuberculosis: a case report

We report a case of an immunocompetent 18-year-old man with a massive hemorrhagic, exudative, lymphocytic pleural effusion. Blind transthoracic pleural biopsy showed granuloma formation, while the pleural fluid culture was positive for Mycobacterium tuberculosis, confirming the diagnosis of primary...

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Autores principales: Mermigkis, Charalampos, Kopanakis, Antony, Psathakis, Kostas, Karagiannidis, Napoleon, Kastanakis, Manolis, Patentalakis, Michael, Amfilochiou, Anastasia, Patentalakis, Georgios, Polychronopoulos, Vlassis
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740155/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19830095
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-8707
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Sumario:We report a case of an immunocompetent 18-year-old man with a massive hemorrhagic, exudative, lymphocytic pleural effusion. Blind transthoracic pleural biopsy showed granuloma formation, while the pleural fluid culture was positive for Mycobacterium tuberculosis, confirming the diagnosis of primary tuberculous pleuritis. A massive hemorrhagic pleural effusion is extremely rare in tuberculosis, but tuberculosis is a very protean disease and should always be included in the differential diagnosis of pleural effusions

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