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Tuberculosis of the rare azygos lobe of the right lung

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the etiological agent of tuberculosis in humans. Tuberculosis is not only a highly contagious infectious disease, but also one of the top causes of death globally, especially in developing countries. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, and tuberculosis of the azyg...

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Autores principales: Abo-Zed, Abdelrhman, Yassin, Mohamed, Phan, Tung
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8348907/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34401270
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2021.101424
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description Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the etiological agent of tuberculosis in humans. Tuberculosis is not only a highly contagious infectious disease, but also one of the top causes of death globally, especially in developing countries. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, and tuberculosis of the azygos lobe of the lung is extremely rare. This case report presents such a unique finding.
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spelling pubmed-83489072021-08-15 Tuberculosis of the rare azygos lobe of the right lung Abo-Zed, Abdelrhman Yassin, Mohamed Phan, Tung Respir Med Case Rep Case Report Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the etiological agent of tuberculosis in humans. Tuberculosis is not only a highly contagious infectious disease, but also one of the top causes of death globally, especially in developing countries. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, and tuberculosis of the azygos lobe of the lung is extremely rare. This case report presents such a unique finding. Elsevier 2021-05-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8348907/ /pubmed/34401270 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2021.101424 Text en © 2021 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Abo-Zed, Abdelrhman
Yassin, Mohamed
Phan, Tung
Tuberculosis of the rare azygos lobe of the right lung
title Tuberculosis of the rare azygos lobe of the right lung
title_full Tuberculosis of the rare azygos lobe of the right lung
title_fullStr Tuberculosis of the rare azygos lobe of the right lung
title_full_unstemmed Tuberculosis of the rare azygos lobe of the right lung
title_short Tuberculosis of the rare azygos lobe of the right lung
title_sort tuberculosis of the rare azygos lobe of the right lung
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8348907/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34401270
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2021.101424
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