Asymptomatic primary tuberculous pleurisy with intense 18-fluorodeoxyglucose uptake mimicking malignant mesothelioma

BACKGROUND: The pathogenesis of primary tuberculous pleurisy is a delayed-type hypersensitivity immunogenic reaction to a few mycobacterial antigens entering the pleural space rather than direct tissue destruction by mycobacterial proliferation. Although it has been shown that pulmonary tuberculosis...

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Autores principales: Shinohara, Tsutomu, Shiota, Naoki, Kume, Motohiko, Hamada, Norihiko, Naruse, Keishi, Ogushi, Fumitaka
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3568019/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23317113
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-13-12

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3568019/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23317113
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-13-12

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