TUBERCULOSIS OF THE CHEST WALL WITHOUT PULMONARY INVOLVEMENT

Skeletal tuberculosis is usually seen in association with primary pulmonary form. Pulmonary tuberculosis of the chest wall is a rare entity. We herein report a case of tuberculosis of the chest wall without pulmonary involvement that presented with big ulcer in the anterior chest wall and responded...

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Autores principales: Gaude, G.S., Reyas, AK
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2822333/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20165668
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.59597
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description Skeletal tuberculosis is usually seen in association with primary pulmonary form. Pulmonary tuberculosis of the chest wall is a rare entity. We herein report a case of tuberculosis of the chest wall without pulmonary involvement that presented with big ulcer in the anterior chest wall and responded completely to the antituberculosis therapy without any surgical intervention.
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spelling pubmed-28223332010-02-17 TUBERCULOSIS OF THE CHEST WALL WITHOUT PULMONARY INVOLVEMENT Gaude, G.S. Reyas, AK Lung India Case Report Skeletal tuberculosis is usually seen in association with primary pulmonary form. Pulmonary tuberculosis of the chest wall is a rare entity. We herein report a case of tuberculosis of the chest wall without pulmonary involvement that presented with big ulcer in the anterior chest wall and responded completely to the antituberculosis therapy without any surgical intervention. Medknow Publications 2008 /pmc/articles/PMC2822333/ /pubmed/20165668 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.59597 Text en © Lung India http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Gaude, G.S.
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TUBERCULOSIS OF THE CHEST WALL WITHOUT PULMONARY INVOLVEMENT
title TUBERCULOSIS OF THE CHEST WALL WITHOUT PULMONARY INVOLVEMENT
title_full TUBERCULOSIS OF THE CHEST WALL WITHOUT PULMONARY INVOLVEMENT
title_fullStr TUBERCULOSIS OF THE CHEST WALL WITHOUT PULMONARY INVOLVEMENT
title_full_unstemmed TUBERCULOSIS OF THE CHEST WALL WITHOUT PULMONARY INVOLVEMENT
title_short TUBERCULOSIS OF THE CHEST WALL WITHOUT PULMONARY INVOLVEMENT
title_sort tuberculosis of the chest wall without pulmonary involvement
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2822333/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20165668
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