Pulmonary tuberculosis masking lung cancer – A case report

Pulmonary Tuberculosis can co-exist with lung malignancy masking the underlying disorder leading to delay in diagnosis and management. Here we present an interesting case of a 60 year old man who on initial presentation was diagnosed with tuberculosis but on nonresponse to therapy and investigation...

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Autores principales: Dhandapani, Srinath, Dheenadayalu, Nageswari A., Shanmugam, Srigayathri, Amitkumar, Kalaivani, Reddy, Harshavardhan K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4681897/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26744649
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2015.06.005
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author Dhandapani, Srinath
Dheenadayalu, Nageswari A.
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Reddy, Harshavardhan K.
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description Pulmonary Tuberculosis can co-exist with lung malignancy masking the underlying disorder leading to delay in diagnosis and management. Here we present an interesting case of a 60 year old man who on initial presentation was diagnosed with tuberculosis but on nonresponse to therapy and investigation was found to have an underlying lung malignancy.
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spelling pubmed-46818972016-01-07 Pulmonary tuberculosis masking lung cancer – A case report Dhandapani, Srinath Dheenadayalu, Nageswari A. Shanmugam, Srigayathri Amitkumar, Kalaivani Reddy, Harshavardhan K. Respir Med Case Rep Case Report Pulmonary Tuberculosis can co-exist with lung malignancy masking the underlying disorder leading to delay in diagnosis and management. Here we present an interesting case of a 60 year old man who on initial presentation was diagnosed with tuberculosis but on nonresponse to therapy and investigation was found to have an underlying lung malignancy. Elsevier 2015-06-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4681897/ /pubmed/26744649 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2015.06.005 Text en © 2015 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Pulmonary tuberculosis masking lung cancer – A case report
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title_full Pulmonary tuberculosis masking lung cancer – A case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4681897/
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