Endobronchial Tuberculosis: A Rare Presentation

Endobronchial tuberculosis (EBTB) is an infection of the tracheobronchial tree by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It is common among young females. Patient can present with fever, cough, wheeze, with or without any constitutional symptoms. It presents as a diagnostic dilemma, as patient sputum smear can...

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Autores principales: Kassam, Nadeem M, Aziz, Omar M, Somji, Samina, Shayo, Grace, Surani, Salim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7282378/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32528769
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8033
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Surani, Salim
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description Endobronchial tuberculosis (EBTB) is an infection of the tracheobronchial tree by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It is common among young females. Patient can present with fever, cough, wheeze, with or without any constitutional symptoms. It presents as a diagnostic dilemma, as patient sputum smear can be false negative. CT scan may or may not show any abnormality, or any endobronchial lesion. Bronchoscopy with bronchoalveolar lavage and biopsy offers the diagnostic choice. We hereby report a case of a young immunocompetent Asian female who was found to have endobronchial pathology, leading to diagnosis and timely therapy. 
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spelling pubmed-72823782020-06-10 Endobronchial Tuberculosis: A Rare Presentation Kassam, Nadeem M Aziz, Omar M Somji, Samina Shayo, Grace Surani, Salim Cureus Internal Medicine Endobronchial tuberculosis (EBTB) is an infection of the tracheobronchial tree by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It is common among young females. Patient can present with fever, cough, wheeze, with or without any constitutional symptoms. It presents as a diagnostic dilemma, as patient sputum smear can be false negative. CT scan may or may not show any abnormality, or any endobronchial lesion. Bronchoscopy with bronchoalveolar lavage and biopsy offers the diagnostic choice. We hereby report a case of a young immunocompetent Asian female who was found to have endobronchial pathology, leading to diagnosis and timely therapy.  Cureus 2020-05-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7282378/ /pubmed/32528769 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8033 Text en Copyright © 2020, Kassam 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.
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Kassam, Nadeem M
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title_short Endobronchial Tuberculosis: A Rare Presentation
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7282378/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32528769
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8033
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