The Importance of a Complete Differential: Case Report of a Tuberculoma in a Patient without Pulmonary Involvement

Patients with a tuberculoma typically present with pulmonary involvement of tuberculosis and have risk factors for tuberculosis (TB). The risk factors for tuberculosis include bacillary load, proximity to infectious case, immunosuppressive conditions, malnutrition, young age, diabetes mellitus, work...

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Autores principales: Sethi, Pooja, Treece, Jennifer, Onweni, Chidinma, Pai, Vandana, Rahman, Zia, Singh, Siddharth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2017
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Pulmonology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5573036/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28852602
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1405
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author Sethi, Pooja
Treece, Jennifer
Onweni, Chidinma
Pai, Vandana
Rahman, Zia
Singh, Siddharth
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Treece, Jennifer
Onweni, Chidinma
Pai, Vandana
Rahman, Zia
Singh, Siddharth
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description Patients with a tuberculoma typically present with pulmonary involvement of tuberculosis and have risk factors for tuberculosis (TB). The risk factors for tuberculosis include bacillary load, proximity to infectious case, immunosuppressive conditions, malnutrition, young age, diabetes mellitus, working in healthcare, recent incarceration, alcohol use, and tobacco use. Although rare, it is possible for a patient to present with a tuberculoma despite the absence of risk factors for tuberculosis other than diabetes and without pulmonary involvement.
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spelling pubmed-55730362017-08-29 The Importance of a Complete Differential: Case Report of a Tuberculoma in a Patient without Pulmonary Involvement Sethi, Pooja Treece, Jennifer Onweni, Chidinma Pai, Vandana Rahman, Zia Singh, Siddharth Cureus Pulmonology Patients with a tuberculoma typically present with pulmonary involvement of tuberculosis and have risk factors for tuberculosis (TB). The risk factors for tuberculosis include bacillary load, proximity to infectious case, immunosuppressive conditions, malnutrition, young age, diabetes mellitus, working in healthcare, recent incarceration, alcohol use, and tobacco use. Although rare, it is possible for a patient to present with a tuberculoma despite the absence of risk factors for tuberculosis other than diabetes and without pulmonary involvement. Cureus 2017-06-28 /pmc/articles/PMC5573036/ /pubmed/28852602 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1405 Text en Copyright © 2017, Sethi et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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 author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Pulmonology
Sethi, Pooja
Treece, Jennifer
Onweni, Chidinma
Pai, Vandana
Rahman, Zia
Singh, Siddharth
The Importance of a Complete Differential: Case Report of a Tuberculoma in a Patient without Pulmonary Involvement
title The Importance of a Complete Differential: Case Report of a Tuberculoma in a Patient without Pulmonary Involvement
title_full The Importance of a Complete Differential: Case Report of a Tuberculoma in a Patient without Pulmonary Involvement
title_fullStr The Importance of a Complete Differential: Case Report of a Tuberculoma in a Patient without Pulmonary Involvement
title_full_unstemmed The Importance of a Complete Differential: Case Report of a Tuberculoma in a Patient without Pulmonary Involvement
title_short The Importance of a Complete Differential: Case Report of a Tuberculoma in a Patient without Pulmonary Involvement
title_sort importance of a complete differential: case report of a tuberculoma in a patient without pulmonary involvement
topic Pulmonology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5573036/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28852602
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1405
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