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
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Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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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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author Mermigkis, Charalampos
Kopanakis, Antony
Psathakis, Kostas
Karagiannidis, Napoleon
Kastanakis, Manolis
Patentalakis, Michael
Amfilochiou, Anastasia
Patentalakis, Georgios
Polychronopoulos, Vlassis
author_facet Mermigkis, Charalampos
Kopanakis, Antony
Psathakis, Kostas
Karagiannidis, Napoleon
Kastanakis, Manolis
Patentalakis, Michael
Amfilochiou, Anastasia
Patentalakis, Georgios
Polychronopoulos, Vlassis
author_sort Mermigkis, Charalampos
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description 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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spelling pubmed-27401552009-10-14 A massive hemorrhagic pleural effusion does not exclude the diagnosis of tuberculosis: a case report Mermigkis, Charalampos Kopanakis, Antony Psathakis, Kostas Karagiannidis, Napoleon Kastanakis, Manolis Patentalakis, Michael Amfilochiou, Anastasia Patentalakis, Georgios Polychronopoulos, Vlassis Cases J 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 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 Cases Network Ltd 2009-07-31 /pmc/articles/PMC2740155/ /pubmed/19830095 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-8707 Text en © 2009 Mermigkis et al.; licensee Cases Network Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case report
Mermigkis, Charalampos
Kopanakis, Antony
Psathakis, Kostas
Karagiannidis, Napoleon
Kastanakis, Manolis
Patentalakis, Michael
Amfilochiou, Anastasia
Patentalakis, Georgios
Polychronopoulos, Vlassis
A massive hemorrhagic pleural effusion does not exclude the diagnosis of tuberculosis: a case report
title A massive hemorrhagic pleural effusion does not exclude the diagnosis of tuberculosis: a case report
title_full A massive hemorrhagic pleural effusion does not exclude the diagnosis of tuberculosis: a case report
title_fullStr A massive hemorrhagic pleural effusion does not exclude the diagnosis of tuberculosis: a case report
title_full_unstemmed A massive hemorrhagic pleural effusion does not exclude the diagnosis of tuberculosis: a case report
title_short A massive hemorrhagic pleural effusion does not exclude the diagnosis of tuberculosis: a case report
title_sort massive hemorrhagic pleural effusion does not exclude the diagnosis of tuberculosis: a case report
topic Case report
url 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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