A Case of Acute Tuberculous Pleuropneumonia in a Patient with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Respiratory system infections are the most common complications in immunocompromised cancer patients. We here report a 14-year-old male who was admitted to the hospital because of acute pneumonia, who had been diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) when he was 12 years old. A diagnosis of...

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Autores principales: Zivanovic, Snezana, Saranac, Ljiljana, Kostic, Gordana, Bogicevic, Vesna, Jovancic, Danijela
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: TheScientificWorldJOURNAL 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5763685/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20364243
http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2010.52
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Sumario:Respiratory system infections are the most common complications in immunocompromised cancer patients. We here report a 14-year-old male who was admitted to the hospital because of acute pneumonia, who had been diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) when he was 12 years old. A diagnosis of acute tuberculous pleuropneumonia was made based on clinical and radiographical findings, and Mycobacterium tuberculosis was identified by Ziehl-Neelson acid-fast stain and culture on Löwenstein-Jensen medium. Twenty months before pneumonia onset, the patient had been treated with immunosupressive therapy (ALL IC-BFM 2002 protocol).

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