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Oleothorax: A Historic Chest Radiograph Finding

Even though tuberculosis (TB) is an extremely old disease, proper effective treatment for the condition became available only around 1944, with the discovery of streptomycin's effect on Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Until then, surgical approaches had been among some of the treatments employed, w...

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Autores principales: Pimentel Nunes, Margarida, Branco Carvalho, Inês, Araújo, Isabel, Almeida, Raquel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9894099/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36741668
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.33305
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author Pimentel Nunes, Margarida
Branco Carvalho, Inês
Araújo, Isabel
Almeida, Raquel
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Almeida, Raquel
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description Even though tuberculosis (TB) is an extremely old disease, proper effective treatment for the condition became available only around 1944, with the discovery of streptomycin's effect on Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Until then, surgical approaches had been among some of the treatments employed, which were dropped with the progressive development of antimycobacterial agents. We present a case of an 83-year-old woman, with a history of pulmonary tuberculosis (PT) at the age of 15 years, presenting with a seven-day history of cough, dark sputum, dyspnea, and pleuritic chest pain. She was submitted to a chest radiograph. The exam revealed a large oval calcified mass on the left apex, compatible with oleothorax. Oleothorax should be included in the differential diagnosis of large calcified thoracic masses in older patients.
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spelling pubmed-98940992023-02-03 Oleothorax: A Historic Chest Radiograph Finding Pimentel Nunes, Margarida Branco Carvalho, Inês Araújo, Isabel Almeida, Raquel Cureus Internal Medicine Even though tuberculosis (TB) is an extremely old disease, proper effective treatment for the condition became available only around 1944, with the discovery of streptomycin's effect on Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Until then, surgical approaches had been among some of the treatments employed, which were dropped with the progressive development of antimycobacterial agents. We present a case of an 83-year-old woman, with a history of pulmonary tuberculosis (PT) at the age of 15 years, presenting with a seven-day history of cough, dark sputum, dyspnea, and pleuritic chest pain. She was submitted to a chest radiograph. The exam revealed a large oval calcified mass on the left apex, compatible with oleothorax. Oleothorax should be included in the differential diagnosis of large calcified thoracic masses in older patients. Cureus 2023-01-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9894099/ /pubmed/36741668 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.33305 Text en Copyright © 2023, Pimentel Nunes et al. https://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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Pimentel Nunes, Margarida
Branco Carvalho, Inês
Araújo, Isabel
Almeida, Raquel
Oleothorax: A Historic Chest Radiograph Finding
title Oleothorax: A Historic Chest Radiograph Finding
title_full Oleothorax: A Historic Chest Radiograph Finding
title_fullStr Oleothorax: A Historic Chest Radiograph Finding
title_full_unstemmed Oleothorax: A Historic Chest Radiograph Finding
title_short Oleothorax: A Historic Chest Radiograph Finding
title_sort oleothorax: a historic chest radiograph finding
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9894099/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36741668
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.33305
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