Diagnosis of three cases of endobronchial tuberculosis presenting as unresolved pneumonia, following fiberoptic bronchoscopic biopsy

Nowadays, endobronchial tuberculosis is of rare occurrence. This article presents three such cases. All of them presented as unresolved pneumonia with collapse-consolidation in chest X-ray. All the three patients were sputum smear negative for acid fast bacilli. Diagnosis was possible only with fibe...

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Autores principales: Roy, Partha Pratim, Dey, Subir Kumar, Sarkar, Anirban, Dwari, Amiya Kumar, Banerjee, Ankan, Banerjee, Rik
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Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2946729/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20931046
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.68316
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author Roy, Partha Pratim
Dey, Subir Kumar
Sarkar, Anirban
Dwari, Amiya Kumar
Banerjee, Ankan
Banerjee, Rik
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description Nowadays, endobronchial tuberculosis is of rare occurrence. This article presents three such cases. All of them presented as unresolved pneumonia with collapse-consolidation in chest X-ray. All the three patients were sputum smear negative for acid fast bacilli. Diagnosis was possible only with fiberoptic bronchoscopy and bronchial biopsy.
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spelling pubmed-29467292010-10-07 Diagnosis of three cases of endobronchial tuberculosis presenting as unresolved pneumonia, following fiberoptic bronchoscopic biopsy Roy, Partha Pratim Dey, Subir Kumar Sarkar, Anirban Dwari, Amiya Kumar Banerjee, Ankan Banerjee, Rik Lung India Case Report Nowadays, endobronchial tuberculosis is of rare occurrence. This article presents three such cases. All of them presented as unresolved pneumonia with collapse-consolidation in chest X-ray. All the three patients were sputum smear negative for acid fast bacilli. Diagnosis was possible only with fiberoptic bronchoscopy and bronchial biopsy. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2946729/ /pubmed/20931046 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.68316 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.
spellingShingle Case Report
Roy, Partha Pratim
Dey, Subir Kumar
Sarkar, Anirban
Dwari, Amiya Kumar
Banerjee, Ankan
Banerjee, Rik
Diagnosis of three cases of endobronchial tuberculosis presenting as unresolved pneumonia, following fiberoptic bronchoscopic biopsy
title Diagnosis of three cases of endobronchial tuberculosis presenting as unresolved pneumonia, following fiberoptic bronchoscopic biopsy
title_full Diagnosis of three cases of endobronchial tuberculosis presenting as unresolved pneumonia, following fiberoptic bronchoscopic biopsy
title_fullStr Diagnosis of three cases of endobronchial tuberculosis presenting as unresolved pneumonia, following fiberoptic bronchoscopic biopsy
title_full_unstemmed Diagnosis of three cases of endobronchial tuberculosis presenting as unresolved pneumonia, following fiberoptic bronchoscopic biopsy
title_short Diagnosis of three cases of endobronchial tuberculosis presenting as unresolved pneumonia, following fiberoptic bronchoscopic biopsy
title_sort diagnosis of three cases of endobronchial tuberculosis presenting as unresolved pneumonia, following fiberoptic bronchoscopic biopsy
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2946729/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20931046
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.68316
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