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Lung Mycobacterium avium developed after removing an acupuncture needle from the lung

Acupuncture needles can cause non‐tuberculosis mycobacteria (NTM) infection on the skin, but there are no reports that acupuncture needles inserted into the lung have caused lung NTM infection. A 63‐year‐old woman, who underwent removal of a broken acupuncture needle inserted into the lung nine year...

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Autores principales: Saito, Mikihito, Kasai, Hajime, Shimazu, Kengo, Urushibara, Takashi, Iida, Tomohiko, Shinozaki, Toshihide
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5757586/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29321924
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rcr2.279