Sjögren's Syndrome with Pleural Effusion: Difficult to Distinguish from Tuberculous Pleurisy Because of a High Adenosine Deaminase Level

An 84-year-old woman visited our hospital for dyspnea due to right pleural effusion, with lymphocytic dominance and a high adenosine deaminase (ADA) level, that had been noted 1 month earlier. She was suspected of having tuberculosis pleurisy; however, anti-tuberculosis treatment yielded no improvem...

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Autores principales: Shimoda, Masafumi, Tanaka, Yoshiaki, Morimoto, Kozo, Shimoda, Kiyomi, Takemura, Tamiko, Oka, Teruaki, Yoshiyama, Takashi, Yoshimori, Kozo, Ohta, Ken
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2021
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8907775/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34393170
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.7818-21

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8907775/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34393170
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.7818-21

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