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Anabolic androgenic steroids in delayed diagnosis of tuberculosis

This is the first case report depicting masking of symptoms of intestinal tuberculosis by anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS) causing delay in diagnosis which lead to a major surgery. Negative tuberculosis skin test (TST) probably due to immunomodulating effects of AAS also contributed to the delay....

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Autores principales: Upadhyaya, Suneet K., Sharma, Archana, Rai, Deependra K., Thawani, Vijay
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3543561/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23326112
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-500X.103698
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Thawani, Vijay
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description This is the first case report depicting masking of symptoms of intestinal tuberculosis by anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS) causing delay in diagnosis which lead to a major surgery. Negative tuberculosis skin test (TST) probably due to immunomodulating effects of AAS also contributed to the delay. Patient also had early dependence on AAS and rapid growth of scrotal sebaceous cysts, findings of which have not yet been reported.
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spelling pubmed-35435612013-01-16 Anabolic androgenic steroids in delayed diagnosis of tuberculosis Upadhyaya, Suneet K. Sharma, Archana Rai, Deependra K. Thawani, Vijay J Pharmacol Pharmacother Case Report This is the first case report depicting masking of symptoms of intestinal tuberculosis by anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS) causing delay in diagnosis which lead to a major surgery. Negative tuberculosis skin test (TST) probably due to immunomodulating effects of AAS also contributed to the delay. Patient also had early dependence on AAS and rapid growth of scrotal sebaceous cysts, findings of which have not yet been reported. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3543561/ /pubmed/23326112 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-500X.103698 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Anabolic androgenic steroids in delayed diagnosis of tuberculosis
title Anabolic androgenic steroids in delayed diagnosis of tuberculosis
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title_short Anabolic androgenic steroids in delayed diagnosis of tuberculosis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3543561/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23326112
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